Charlie Gilmour has been made a scapegoat. If Charlie was an ordinary jack the lad he probably wouldn't even have ended up in court. The only thing he appears to be guilty of is swinging on the union flag attached to the cenotaph - from mailonline "Although Gilmour was not sentenced for his behaviour at the Cenotaph, he was told his actions were 'reprehensible'" It is shameful of British society that a such a minor offence warrants 16 months in prison alongside murderers, rapists, thieves and the like. Particularly when prisons are filled beyond capacity with mostly real criminals.