Millionaire's daughter facing jail over riots

The daughter of a millionaire has been warned she could be jailed after being convicted of driving looters on a crime spree during last summer's riots.

20-year-old Laura Johnson cruised around London while her passengers leapt from the car in hooded tops to go looting.

Johnson, from Orpington in Kent, was convicted of one count of burglary and one of handling stolen goods.

She was cleared of two other burglary charges and a charge of handling stolen goods.

• The court heard how Johnson set out early on the evening of August 8 to deliver a phone charger to her friend Emmanuel Okubote. He is a convicted cocaine dealer and thief.

• When she arrived at their meeting point in Catford, south London, he jumped into the passenger seat while others climbed into the back.

• Johnson told how she was instructed 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 - would embark on a looting mission and robbed people at knifepoint.

Asked why she had not refused to drive that night, she told the police:

Johnson is reading English and Italian at the University of Exeter. She is a former grammar school pupil who reportedly achieved four A*s and nine As at GCSE.

The university said it would wait for sentencing before deciding whether to take any additional action against her.

Leaving court, Laura Johnson told those waiting outside the court: "Have a nice Easter."