The girlfriend of Otis Ferry, son of the pop singer Bryan Ferry, has been arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice.

Francesca Nimmo, 22, was arrested by Gloucestershire police at 7am on Friday at her home in Lower Bodlington, Northamptonshire. Arrested at the same time as Ms Nimmo, a student at the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester, was Adrian Simpson, 53, a Countryside Alliance official, at his home in Haverfordwest, Wales.

Ferry is in Gloucester Prison awaiting trial for perverting the course of justice. Crown prosecutors suspect he tried to influence a witness in an earlier case against him of assault and robbery. He appeared at Cheltenham Magistrates' Court in May.

Ms Nimmo and Mr Simpson have both been granted bail until January 28.

And What Has Tory MP Daniel Kawczynski Been Smoking?

Rock star’s son Otis Ferry is being held as a political prisoner, Shrewsbury MP Daniel Kawczynski has claimed.

He said he had now written to the head of the Crown Prosecution Service demanding the countryside campaigner, of Eaton Mascott, near Shrewsbury, be bailed to await his next court appearance.

The 25-year-old son of Roxy Music singer Bryan Ferry has been on remand in Gloucester jail since September 18 on charges of perverting the course of justice. He may have waited a total of more than five months by the time his case goes to trial.

Mr Kawczynski today said he believed the joint huntmaster of the South Shropshire Hunt was being punished for storming the House of Commons in protest at the hunting Bill in 2004.

The Tory MP said: “I have received a letter from Otis Ferry in prison and I am absolutely convinced he is being kept as a political prisoner. Because he tweaked the Government’s whiskers by invading the House of Commons and managed to get on the main floor I am concerned that they are putting political pressure on the CPS to keep him in prison.

Next he'll be writing to Amnesty International