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Student Laura Johnson is convicted of riots looting Millionaire's daughter Laura Johnson guilty of riots burglary
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A student has been found guilty of burglary during last summer's riots. A millionaire's daughter who drove looters around London during the summer riots has been convicted of burglary.
Laura Johnson, 20, from Orpington, south-east London, had denied the charges, claiming she was acting under duress. Laura Johnson, 20, of Orpington, south-east London, had denied the charges, claiming she was acting under duress.
She was cleared over another count of burglary and the jury is still deliberating on three counts of handling stolen goods. The student was convicted of one burglary and cleared of another. Jurors are still deliberating on a third burglary charge.
A 17-year-old co-defendant was also found guilty on one count of burglary and not guilty on another.A 17-year-old co-defendant was also found guilty on one count of burglary and not guilty on another.
Johnson is intelligent and well-educated, the court heard during the trial. The jury is also continuing to deliberate on three counts of handling stolen goods.
University of Exeter undergraduate Johnson is intelligent and well-educated, the court heard during the trial.
'Instructed to drive'
The Old Bailey was told that she chauffeured looters on 8 August last year.
Her passengers jumped from the car wearing hooded tops, bandanas and balaclavas and loaded it with stolen electronic goods.
The jury heard that Johnson set out early in the evening to deliver a phone charger to her friend, Emmanuel Okubote, 20, a convicted crack cocaine dealer and thief, known as T-Man.
When she arrived at their meeting point in Catford, south London, he jumped into the passenger seat while others climbed into the back of the car, prosecutors said.
Johnson told detectives she had been instructed to drive from one place to another late at night and into the early hours of the morning.
The court heard that Johnson began a close friendship with Okubote during the summer after being introduced to him by a friend she met while a mental health unit outpatient.
She told the court she had been ordered to act as his driver on the night and had been too frightened to flee.
Theft from Comet
Asked why she had not refused to drive that night, she told police: "I didn't get the impression they were the sort of people you say no to... I suppose there's a fear of them, there's a general knowledge that these are just not the kind of people who you don't go along with, especially when they are sat in your car and have an idea of your family or registration plate."
Johnson was joined in the dock by a 17-year-old boy who cannot be named for legal reasons.
They were convicted of stealing electrical goods from a Comet store at the Greenwich Retail Park between 7 and 10 August.
But they were cleared of stealing a television from a Currys shop at Stonelake Retail Park in south-east London between the same dates.