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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-15490830

Charlie Gilmour, the son of Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, has lost an appeal against his sentence for violent disorder during a student fees protest.

Gilmour, of Billingshurst, West Sussex, who swung from a Union flag on the Cenotaph during the demo last December, was jailed for 16 months in July.

The Cambridge University student admitted attacking a shop in Oxford Street and a car in the royal convoy.

Judges at the Court of Appeal said his jail term was not "unduly harsh".

Lord Justice Hughes said the court was unable to say that his sentence was "arguably either manifestly excessive or wrong in principle".

The history student joined thousands of protesters in Trafalgar Square and Parliament Square, on 9 December last year, to demonstrate against an increase in university fees.

Mannequin leg

Glimour was found guilty by a judge at Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court of throwing a rubbish bin at a vehicle that was part of the royal convoy.

He was also found to have kicked at the window of Topshop's flagship store on Oxford Street and ended up in possession of the leg of a mannequin.

The judge in the case accepted the antics at the Cenotaph did not form part of the violent disorder, but described it as "outrageous and deeply offensive behaviour".

At the Appeal Court hearing, lawyers for Gilmour argued he knew the "significance" of the monument but did not realise he was dangling from a war memorial.

Judges also heard Gilmour had taken LSD and valium before joining the protests.

Well, I am surprised - presumably he'll have to do another 4 months or so "inside" .....