Pink Floyd rocker’s son jailed for violent student protest

The son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, was sentenced to 16 months in prison on Friday for a drink and drugs-fuelled rampage during protests against student tuition fees in London.
Undergraduate Charlie Gilmour tossed a bin at a Jaguar escorting Prince Charles and Camilla while “out of his mind” on hallucinogenic LSD, reports the Sun.

Gilmour’s mum Polly, 49, wept as the Cambridge student, who shamefully swung from a Union Flag on the Cenotaph, was also jailed for kicking a store window.

Judge Nicholas Price QC said the Cenotaph stunt symbolised Gilmour’s impolite behaviour even though it was not part of the violent disorder charge to which he pleaded guilty.

He said, “It caused public outrage and understandably so.” Gilmour — disowned by his biological dad, poet Heathcote Williams — was now undergoing drug therapy. The QC insisted the student was not the spoilt son of a wealthy musician — and had been made to take out a loan for his history degree.