CHARLIE Gilmour has spoken about his relationship with his adopted father the Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour and going to prison.

Charlie, now 26, spent four months in prison after swinging from a flag at the cenotaph during a student protest, followed by another four months on house arrest at his parents address in Hove.

He got married to Janina Pedan in Billingshurst on Saturday and told a national newspaper: "David, was and is, in many ways, the perfect father and we are now very, very close. He is a kind person, very generous with his time and his energy.

"I felt very lucky to have the parents I have when I went to prison. I felt very guilty that my parents were having to go through this."

David added: "I have been asked whether they made an example of Charlie because he had a rock star father. The fact of the matter is that his first fame was a picture on the front page of a newspaper with the question, “Who is this girl?”

"Because the picture of him swinging on the Cenotaph, with his long hair made them think he was a girl. So the first time it hit the newspapers, it wasn’t connected to me. But, of course, as soon as it became know that it wasn’t a girl and it was Charlie and he was my son and everything, you know …

"I’ve been bonded to Charlie as his dad since he was three, so it was appalling and we were incensed with the injustice of it. We were very concerned about his welfare."