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Gilmour to be sentenced for rampage

The son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour could face jail for going on the rampage at a student fees protest.

A court heard yesterday (Thursday) that Charlie Gilmour shouted "We're going to break all the laws" during a day of riots late last year.

The 21-year-old, from Billingshurst, West Sussex, pleaded guilty to violent disorder in May after joining thousands demonstrating in London's Trafalgar Square and Parliament Square, and is due to be sentenced today.

During the march on December 9 he was photographed hanging from a Union flag on the Cenotaph, a caper for which he has since apologised.

He appeared for sentencing at Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court in south west London yesterday, accompanied by his rock star father and mother Polly Samson, who watched proceedings from the public gallery.

Their son covered his face with his hands and smiled in embarrassment as the court was shown footage of his antics.

Gilmour was also accused of attacking the front window of Topshop's flagship store in Oxford Street and making off with the leg of a mannequin that had somehow come into his possession.

His barrister said: "Up until Topshop, the worst of his behaviour was playing the fool, showing off, posing for the cameras. There is an abundance of evidence to indicate that is what he was doing.

"The weight of the evidence is he's not exhibiting real violence."

Gilmour issued an apology the day after the demonstrations, describing the incident at the Cenotaph as a "moment of idiocy", and added that he did not realise the Whitehall monument commemorated Britain's war dead.

Source: music.uk.msn.com
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