Pink Floyd's David Gilmour's Son 'Drunk' At Student Fees Demo

Pink Floyd star David Gilmour's song Charlie was drunkenly shouting about breaking laws at a demo over the hike in student fees, a court has heard.

In May, the 21-year-old Cambridge University student pleaded guilty to Violent Disorder during the student fees riots last December.

He was charged after photographs were published showing him hanging from a flag on the Cenotaph in London.

He was  accused of  throwing a bin at a convoy of cars containing Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, and breaking the front window of Topshop's flagship store in Oxford Street.

His barrister David Spens QC told the court Gilnmour was “thoroughly intoxicated” on the day of the protest, reports BBC News.

In video clips played in court he is heard claiming to “break all the laws” and in another he says: "'Let them eat cake. We won't eat cake, we'll eat fire and ice and destruction because we're angry."

Sentencing has been adjourned until Friday (July 15).