Millionaire riot student jailed

Edwards was sentenced to a year in a
 young offenders' institution 

A millionaire's daughter who drove looters around London during the 2011 riots has been jailed for two years.

Laura Johnson, 20, of Orpington, south-east London, had denied charges of burglary and handling stolen goods, claiming she was acting under duress.

But the judge at Inner London Crown Court said she played "a pivotal role" in law-breaking on 8 August.

She was convicted of taking goods from a Comet store and handling a stolen television from a Currys outlet.

Johnson was joined in the dock by a teenage boy, who had previously admitted burglary by stealing alcohol and cigarettes from a BP garage in Charlton, south-east London.

He can now be named as Christopher Edwards, 17, after the judge lifted an order banning his identification.

Edwards was sentenced to 12 months at a young offenders' institution. (BBC.co.uk)