London riots: Laura Johnson had ‘intimate relationship’ with drug dealer

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London riots: Laura Johnson had ‘intimate relationship’ with drug dealer

March 21st, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Laura Johnson, 20, accused of driving a getaway car, says she was forced to help gang
She ‘picked up a TV and put it in her vehicle,’ claims witness

By
Rebecca Evans

PUBLISHED:

08:18 EST, 20 March 2012

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UPDATED:

19:00 EST, 20 March 2012

A millionaire’s daughter was in an ‘intimate relationship’ with a robber and drug dealer she claimed had forced her to drive a getaway car during last year’s riots, a court heard yesterday.

Laura Johnson, 20, said the man, known as Sylar, threatened her by putting his hands around her throat and applying pressure with his thumbs.

She claimed she was left terrified after he and two friends spoke of knives and guns, and showed her mobile phone footage of torture.

Top student: Laura Johnson looked demure in a white shirt and glasses as she heard the case against her at Inner London Crown Court today

On trial: Johnson at court in September, a month after the riots

Laura Johnson, pictured left at court yesterday and right back in September, had been
treated for anxiety and depression before the riots

The Exeter University student said
she was so scared that she drove them around South-East London as they
looted a haul of electrical goods, alcohol and cigarettes on August 9,
one of the worst nights of the riots. However, the prosecution has
dismissed Johnson’s claims, saying she ‘knew what she was doing’.

Yesterday, Johnson’s friend Charlie
Fryett told a jury that far from being terrified, Johnson had behaved
flirtatiously with Sylar, and that the pair were on ‘close’ terms.

Miss Fryett, 20, told Inner London
Crown Court that she had met Johnson at Green Parks House psychiatric
outpatients unit in Orpington in April last year. Soon she had
introduced Johnson to lots of her ‘black, male friends’.

She said she was aware that Johnson, a
former pupil of St Olave’s Grammar School, was depressed after
splitting from her boyfriend, and that she had self-harmed and attempted
an overdose.

Privileged upbringing: Johnson was accompanied by her mother Lindsay (centre) and father Robert (right), who run direct marketing company Avongate

Miss Johnson, who is reading English and Italian, is the daughter of a millionaire businessman who lives int his home in Orpington, south-east London

Miss Johnson, who is reading English and Italian, is the daughter of a millionaire businessman who lives in this home in Orpington, south-east London

Miss Fryett told the court they had
both ‘fancied’ Sylar, who liked to listen to violent gangster rap.
However, the girls had drifted apart after he appeared to be more
interested in Johnson.

The final straw for their friendship
came on August 9 last year when Miss Fryett phoned Johnson and heard
Sylar’s voice in the background, the jury heard.

‘I felt betrayed, I felt like people were going behind my back again,’ she said.

Watched by Johnson’s parents Robert
and Lindsay, who run Avongate, a direct marketing company, she told the
court that Johnson and Sylar had a close relationship: ‘They would meet
up and sit in a car together,’ she said.

‘They had had close contact. They had kissed and stuff. She said he came on to her and whatever happened in the car happened.

‘She was flirting towards him so I blame her for bringing it on. She came across as easy.’

Family home: Miss Johnson has been bailed to her parents' large detached house

Family home: Miss Johnson has been bailed to her parents’ large detached house

A police officer yesterday also
revealed how he feared for his life when Johnson revved her car engine
at him after he shouted at her to stop.

PC Chris Bramley told the jury that
he saw the student sitting in her black Smart car as three black youths
filled it with stolen goods from Comet.

Police later found three stolen TVs,
alcohol and cigarettes inside the vehicle, while a microwave was
discovered on the floor nearby. ‘When I approached the front of the car I
heard the engine revving,’ he told the jury.

‘I believed my life was in danger. I
had my baton and I struck the front windscreen causing damage. I again
heard the engine revving and again hit it, again causing damage.’

Johnson, of Orpington, Kent, has pleaded not guilty to burglary and handling stolen goods.

A 17-year-old boy, who cannot be
named for legal reasons, of Lewisham, South-East London, denies burglary
and handling stolen goods but has admitted burgling a BP petrol
station.

The trial continues.