Millionaire's daughter faces jail after riot conviction (UK)
A millionaire's daughter was warned she could be jailed after being convicted of driving looters on a late-night crime spree at the height of last summer's riots.
Laura Johnson, 20, chauffeured the group through London on 8 August.
As they cruised around the capital, her passengers, wearing hooded tops, bandanas and balaclavas, leapt from the car to go looting.
The University of Exeter undergraduate, from Orpington, south-east London, was convicted of one count of burglary and one of handling stolen goods.
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Jurors hearing the case were told how Johnson set out early on the evening of 8 August to deliver a phone charger to her friend Emmanuel Okubote, 20, who has convictions for cocaine dealing and theft, otherwise known as T-Man.
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Jurors heard how Johnson, who previously tried to kill herself, began a close friendship with Okubote during the summer after being introduced to him by a friend she met while an outpatient at a mental health unit.
She told the court she was ordered to act as his driver on 8 August and had been too frightened to report the men or flee.
full: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/apr/05/millionaires-daughter-guilty-riot-charge
She hasn't been sentenced yet...so will there be time for Millionaire Daddy to buy Laura's way out of jail? Stay tuned...
Also, the Telegraph has more about Johnson: "Laura Johnson: how London gang culture seduced the millionaire's daughter from suburbia".
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Hearst was sentenced to 35 years for bank robbery, but ended up serving only 22 months. Her sentence was commuted by Jimmy Carter and she received a full pardon from Bill Clinton.
There will be plenty of time for Johnson to get special treatment, before or after her sentencing.
