Millionaire's Daughter Laura Johnson Jailed For Two Years For Driving London Riots Looters

Millionaire's Daughter Jailed For Two Years Over London Riots

Laura Johnson, a millionaire's daughter, has been jailed for two years for driving looters round London on a late-night crime spree at the height of last summer's riots.

The university-educated 20-year-old chauffeured the group on 8 August in her black Smart car.

As they cruised around the capital, her passengers leapt from the car clad in hooded tops, bandanas and balaclavas to loot.

Today at Inner London Crown Court, the University of Exeter undergraduate, from Orpington, Kent, was jailed for two years for one count of burglary and two years for one of handling stolen goods, to run concurrently.

Johnson set out early on the evening of 8 August to deliver a phone charger to her friend Emmanuel Okubote, 20, a convicted cocaine dealer and thief, known as T-Man.

When they met in Catford, south London, he jumped into the passenger seat while three others climbed into the back.

Johnson told police she was told to drive from one place to another over several hours as violence spread across the city.

When she stopped, her passengers - most of whom she claimed to have never met before - looted and robbed people at knifepoint.

Johnson - who is reading English and Italian at university - is a former grammar school pupil who reportedly achieved four A*s and nine As at GCSE.

Johnson is the daughter of Robert and Lindsay Johnson who own direct marketing business Avongate Ltd.

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