Justice for Charlie Gilmour
WELL now here's a summer fuss dividing London social life and legal opinion. Should a posh student who gets himself involved in a riot and ends up climbing up the Cenotaph—the city's most sombre memorial to the war dead—and attacking a convoy with the heir to the throne in it, get a particularly tough sentence for a first offence: 16 months behind bars?
Martin Narey, the former director general of the prison service, has weighed in. In the Times today, he argues that the sentence meted out to the student protester was excessive and that a non-custodial sentence would have been more appropriate. Eric Cantona, the footballer, argues Mr Narey, kicked a fan in the face and ended up doing community service, rather than time in jail. So why should vandalism, even on the rather epic scale attempted by this foolish Cambridge undergraduate, earn a prison sentence when so many other infractions of the law these days are treated to other punishments?
In the arguments over Charlie Gilmour's sentencing, a number of facts are unignorable. The first is that, in the rough and tumble of the student-fees demonstration in December last year, Mr Gilmour's behaviour stood out in its offensiveness and extremity. He was “out of his mind” on drugs and drink. He threw a bin at a convoy carrying the Prince of Wales and his wife, was part of a mob attacking a business in the centre of town and topped off the day's activities by swinging from the Cenotaph.
But the underlying dissent has been as much about Mr Gilmour's background as his activities. As the privately educated and wealthy step-son of the Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour and a prominent journalist mother, Mr Gilmour is, as his mother plaintively put it "perfect to use as an example". Judge Nicholas Price, passing sentence, explicitly noted that "You, of all people, should have known better." That's an instinct many share when it comes to assessing crime and punishment. But it is always a controversial way to interpret the law and requires limits, lest it tip simply into anti-toff populism or other forms of self-righteousness.
When Cherie Blair QC , sitting as a judge, admonished a Christian defendant in a case that he should have behaved better because he was a religious believer, she had her knuckles rapped by a more senior judge. In the Gilmour case, however, his education and standing as a Cambridge undergraduate is relevant to his argument that he did not realise the Cenotaph commemorated the war dead. (Parents may feel that this is a poor advertisement for history studies at Lancing private school, Gilmour’s alma mater. For a history undergraduate, it is a frankly daft line to take.
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