A relative of Gordon Ramsay who lives in Kent has been charged with computer hacking.

Adam Hutcheson was accused of accessing private email messages between the celebrity chef and his wife Tana on company computers at the High Court in 2014.

The 46-year-old, of London Road, Wrotham Heath, near Sevenoaks, has now been charged with conspiring to access computer programmes and data.

His father Chris Hutcheson - Ramsay’s estranged father-in-law - and sister Orlanda Butland, have also been charged with the same offence, alongside Chris Hutcheson’s other son Chris.

The allegations date back to between October 2010 and March 2011 - when Ramsay and Chris senior, of Druillat, France, began a toxic feud.

The family have been embroiled in a bitter dispute since Ramsay, 50, sued Chris, once the chief executive of Gordon Ramsay Holdings, for millions of pounds following a massive bust-up.

In turn, the four claimed they had been unfairly dismissed, but eventually settled for £2 million.

The row led to Tana, 42, cutting all contact with her family.

Scotland Yard said: "Four people have been charged and requisitioned to appear at court to answer charges under the Criminal Law Act 1977 following an investigation by detectives from Operation Tuleta.

"The charges follow allegations that between 23 October 2010 and 3 March 2011, they conspired together to cause a computer to access programs and data held in any computer without authority, contrary to section 1(1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977."

Adam Hutcheson, his father Chris, 68, and the later’s son Chris, 37, of Kenyon Place, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, and Butland, 45, of Wycombe Place, Battersea, London, are due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on March 14.