A MILLIONAIRE'S daughter who drove looters around during last summer's riots is facing jail after being convicted of burglary.

Laura Johnson, of Sheepcote Lane, Orpington, was found guilty of burgling Comet, in Bugsby’s Way, Charlton, at Inner London Crown Court on April 5.

She was also convicted of handling stolen goods - a TV looted from Currys in Stonelake Retail Park, Charlton.

Jurors heard the 20-year-old chauffeured a group of youngsters through the capital on August 8 last year.

CCTV footage on Johnson at a petrol station during the riots

As they cruised around, her passengers leapt from the car clad in hooded tops, bandanas and balaclavas before stashing the vehicle with stolen goods.

The court heard 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, otherwise known as T-Man.

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

Johnson told detectives she was instructed to drive from one place to another late at night and into the early hours of the morning. When she stopped, her passengers - most of whom she claimed never to have met before - would embark on a looting mission.

She was joined in the dock by a 17-year-old boy who cannot be named for legal reasons.

He was also convicted of stealing electrical goods from the Comet store and cleared of burgling the Currys shop.

Judge Patricia Lees said: "You have both been convicted of serious offences. These are aggravated by the fact that they were conducted in the time frame of serious civil unrest in London last summer.

"This spree of burglaries and handling stolen goods which you both were willing participants in will attract in my mind the likelihood of an immediate custodial sentence."

Both defendants are due to be sentenced at the same court on May 3.