A 55-year-old man arrested as part of an inquiry into alleged “witness nobbling” by Shropshire huntmaster Otis Ferry has been charged with robbery, police revealed today.

Three other people, including Ferry’s 22-year-old girlfriend Francesca Nimmo have today had their police bail extended until March 2 as investigations continue. Gloucestershire police say the man who has been charged with robbery is from Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire.

The accused man will appear before Cheltenham magistrates on February 12. The robbery allegation against him is the same charge faced by Otis Ferry, from Eaton Mascott, near Shrewsbury, of robbing a hunt monitor at a meeting of the Heythrop Hunt near Stow on the Wold, Gloucestershire, more than a year ago.

Ferry, 26, who is joint master of the South Shropshire Hunt, is accused of robbing the hunt monitor, Helen Ghalmi, of a camera and also of assaulting her in November 2007.

He was due to face trial on those charges at Gloucester Crown Court in September last year when allegations surfaced that he had attempted to prevent a prosecution witness giving evidence against him.

His trial was then stopped and he was arrested and charged with doing acts intended to pervert the course of justice by telling his former groomsman David Hodgkiss not to give evidence against him.

Ferry, the son of rock star Brian Ferry,  spent the next four months in custody awaiting trial on all charges.

But he was granted bail earlier this month on stringent conditions including a £25,000 surety from his mother Lucy Birley.

He must live with her in Kensington, London, and is not allowed to come in to Shropshire.

Now Gloucestershire police have revealed that a 55-year-old Chipping Campden man has been charged with the same robbery offence and will face magistrates next month for proceedings to commit him for trial alongside Mr Ferry.

The three people who have been re-bailed today pending further enquiries into an allegation of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice are understood to include Adrian Simpson, 53, from Haverfordwest in West Wales, Welsh regional director of the pro-hunt Countryside Alliance.