Gordon Ramsay's estranged father-in-law and his three children have been charged with computer hacking, police revealed today.

Chris Hutcheson, 68, and his son Adam, 46, and daughter Orlanda Butland, 45, were accused of accessing private email messages between the chef and his wife Tana on company computers at the High Court in 2014.

The trio, along with Hutcheson's other son Chris, 37, were today charged with conspiring to access computer programmes and data.

The allegations date back to between October 2010 and March 2011 - when Ramsay and Chris senior 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.

Today 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."

Chris Hutcheson of Druillat, France, and his children Adam, of London Road, Wrotham Heath, Sevenoaks, Kent; Orlanda of Wycombe Place, Battersea, London; and Chris of Kenyon Place, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire are due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on March 14.