Pink Floyd star's student son faces jail for violent disorder at fees protest

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Charlie Gilmour, the 21-year-old son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, has admitted violent disorder at the December student fees protest.

He was warned his charges could result in jail but was granted bail at Kingston Crown Court until July – giving him time to complete his Cambridge University exams.

Gilmour, pictured, was photographed hanging from a Union Flag on the Cenotaph and is accused of leaping on the bonnet of a car carrying royal protection officers, smashing a store window and throwing a rubbish bin at the royal convoy.

Gilmour entered a non-specific guilty plea as he appeared at Kingston Crown Court. Releasing a statement in the wake of his Cenotaph antics, Gilmour said: "I feel nothing but shame. My intention was not to attack or defile the Cenotaph. Running along with a crowd of people who had just been violently repelled by the police, I got caught up in the spirit of the moment."

Gilmour's biological father is poet and playwright Heathcote Williams but he was adopted by the rock star when his mother, writer and journalist Polly Samson, remarried.

Gilmour, who is banned from the City of Westminster as part of his bail conditions, has exams to sit in June, the court heard.

The judge added: "The fact that I am granting you bail is of no indication whatsoever that you will be dealt with in a non-custodial way. You must understand that your plea of guilty to violent disorder is a serious matter."