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Old 15-07-2011, 11:26 AM #1
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Lightbulb Charlie Gilmour jailed for student fees demo violence

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-14150800

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Charlie Gilmour, son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, has been jailed for 16 months for a rampage at a student fees protest in London.

Gilmour, 21, was accused of throwing a bin at a convoy of cars containing Prince Charles, sitting on a protection officer's car and smashing a window.

The Cambridge University student, of Billinghurst, West Sussex, was bailed in May so he could finish his exams.

Kingston Crown Court heard he had taken LSD and valium before the incident.

Gilmour was among thousands of people who protested in Trafalgar Square and Parliament Square on 9 December 2010 and was photographed hanging from a union flag on the Cenotaph during the march.

He was also seen leaping on to the bonnet of a Jaguar car that formed part of a royal convoy and hurling a rubbish bin at the vehicle.

He was filmed shouting: "They broke the moral law, we're going to break all the laws."

Gilmour entered a non-specific guilty plea during a hearing in May.
Harsh, but fair .....
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