The 78-year-old, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was jailed for 16 years for attempted rape, unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl under 13, and four counts of indecent assault in 2015.
Sources in the Ministry of Justice have reportedly said that Glitter would be released as early as February 2023.
They reportedly said that the ‘nature of his determinate sentence means the case won’t go to the Parole Board.’
‘It simply means that as soon as his sentence is over, he is free to walk out of the prison gates,’ the source said.
They said that Glitter had ‘kept his nose clean in prison’ so his sentence will be nearly over.
An offender who is convicted of a sexual offence is released on a strict licence.
The terms of the licence can include staying in an approved premise, obeying a curfew and having GPS tagging, not having unsupervised contact with children and restrictions on internet usage.
Victims’ families can also be protected from unwanted contact through exclusion zones being set up.
If offenders breach the conditions, the Probation Service can recall them to prison.
Glitter found fame in the 1970s as part of the glam rock scene, scoring number one hits with I’m The Leader Of The Gang (I Am), I Love You Love Me Love and Always Yours.
He suffered a spectacular fall from grace in 1999 when he admitted possessing child sexual abuse images, and was sentenced to four months in jail.
In 2002, he was expelled from Cambodia over unspecified allegations and, in March 2006, he was convicted of sexually abusing two girls, aged 10 and 11, in Vietnam.
Glitter was able to travel to Cambodia due to gaps in the legal system an Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has found.
Shamed rockstar Glitter, real name Paul Gadd, admitted possessing child sexual abuse images and was sentenced to four months in 1999.
But he was still able to travel to Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam.
Glitter was later found guilty of abuse relating to a girl aged 12, one of 13, and another aged under 10, committed when he was at the height of his fame in the 1970s and 1980s.
One girl was younger than 10 years old when he crept into her bed and tried attacked her in 1975.
Glitter attacked two of his victims, aged 12 and 13, after inviting them backstage to his dressing room and isolating them from their mothers.
The 12-year-old, who had been drinking Moet champagne, was also taken to his hotel room before he subjected her to a prolonged episode of sexual abuse and then raped her in 1977.
Towards the end of the decade he struck again, sliding his hand up the 13-year-old girl’s skirt as she sat on his lap in his dressing room.
He was jailed for 16 years in 2015.
His lawyers lodged papers at the Court of Appeal following his conviction for abusing a string of girls as young as eight.
Sentencing Glitter after his trial, Judge Alistair McCreath said: ‘I have read the victim impact statements of all three victims. It is clear, in their different ways, they were all profoundly affected by your abuse of them.
‘You did all of them real and lasting damage and you did so for no other reason than to obtain sexual gratification for yourself of a wholly improper kind.’
During his trial, Glitter broke down in tears after he tried to explain to jurors why he had been apprehended with images of child sexual abuse.
In November 1997, when Glitter went to pick up a Toshiba laptop he had given for servicing at a Bristol PC World, he was arrested, Southwark Crown Court in London heard.
The engineer who examined the machine had discovered images on it related to child sexual abuse.
Glitter subsequently admitted responsibility for a ‘large number’ of images – depicting a full range of sexual activity taking place between men and very young children – being on his computer.
