Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour’s son has launched an appeal against his 16-month jail sentence for going on a drink-and-drug-fuelled rampage at a student fees protest.

Charlie Gilmour, 21, of Billings-hurst, West Sussex, admitted violent disorder after joining thousands demonstrating in London’s Trafalgar Square and Parliament Square last year.

During a day of riots, he was seen hanging from a Union flag on the Cenotaph and leaping on to the bonnet of a Jaguar car that formed part of a royal convoy.

He was found to have also hurled a rubbish bin at the vehicle.

The Cambridge University student was jailed at Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court last month.

A spokeswoman for the Judicial Office confirmed today that papers have been lodged with the Court of Appeal. But she added that “as yet, no decisions have been made about the case”.