THE granddaughter of ex-Plaid president Gwynfor Evans yesterday became the first Welsh language campaigner to be locked up in 11 years. Aberystwyth student Gwenno Teifi Ffransis was sent to a prison's young offenders wing for five days. The 19-year-old refused to pay court-imposed compensation to a Welsh radio station. She damaged Radio Carmarthenshire's Narberth studio in protest over its lack of Welsh broadcasts. Yesterday her dad Ffred Ffransis - jailed in Welsh language protests in the 1970s with wife Meinir - warned Gwenno the first three days of her sentence would be the worst. "I campaigned so that my children would not have to," he said.. Cymdeithas chair Steffan Cravos has invited Assembly first minister Rhodri Morgan to visit Gwenno at HMP Eastwood Park Prison near Gloucester to discuss a new Welsh language act. Gwenno from Llanfihangel-ararth, Carmarthenshire - whose mum Meinir is Gwynfor Evans' daughter - is studying Welsh and international politics at Aberystwyth. She was sentenced at Carmarthen Guild Hall - where her grandad famously won Plaid's first Commons seat in a 1966 by-election. Last April Haverfordwest magistrates found her guilty of causing damage to the radio station and ordered to pay £150 compensation and £50 costs for criminal damage. Yesterday she was jailed for refusing to pay compensation to the station - the subject of an Ofcom inquiry last year over its lack of Welsh. Gwenno told magistrates: "This radio station bears the name of the county in which I was brought up and their disregard of the Welsh language is deplorable. "If the Welsh language is to live then it must become central to everything relevant to young people such as the local radio station." Plaid politicians were yesterday criticised for lending their support to Cymdeithas. But party president Dafydd Iwan said: "When Peter Hain was digging up rugby pitches, I was painting road signs." | 
