January 2023
Paedophile glam rock singer Gary Glitter will be released from prison within a few days — but will not be able to disappear abroad.
The pop pervert, 78, will have just three days to register his name with his local police station and will risk being sent back to jail if he fails to attend.
He must tell officers seven days in advance of any foreign travel, give details of his destination, any onward travel to another country and duration of stay.
Officers can veto a trip if they believe there is a risk of further offences taking place.
Glitter was sentenced to 16 years for attempted rape, unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl under 13, and four counts of indecent assault in 2015.
Glitter was able to travel to Cambodia and Vietnam despite a conviction for possessing 4,000 child abuse images in 1999.
In March 2006, he was convicted of sexually abusing two girls, aged 10 and 11, in Vietnam. And after paying off the families, he served just two years in a Vietnamese prison
He will also have to wear a tag and tell cops if he begins a relationship with someone who has a child under 18
A charity working with dangerous sex offenders will mobilise a group of up to six volunteers to be on hand 24 hours a day for Glitter so he does not feel lonely after leaving prison next month.
The aim is to make him feel safe and not tempted to slip back into offending.
Glitter — real name Paul Gadd — owns a house in London. He had a string of chart hits in the 1970s. The Sun revealed last year that he was being readied for release after serving half of his 16-year jail sentence — imposed in 2015 for abuse offences.
Because he was sentenced to a determinate term — a fixed period that cannot be reviewed — his case will not go before the Parole Board.
December 2022
Gary Glitter to be freed from prison in WEEKS
Paedophile pop star Gary Glitter will be released from prison early next year after serving just half of his 16-year sentence, a report has claimed.
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 pornography 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 pornography images and was sentenced to four months in 1999.
But he was still able to travel to Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam.
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 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.
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.
February 2015
Gary Glitter jailed: Paedophile rock star sentenced to 16 years for sex attacks on schoolgirls
Gary Glitter faces dying behind bars after being jailed for 16 years for sexually abusing three schoolgirls.
The 70-year-old, real name Paul Gadd, was sentenced after being found guilty of one count of attempted rape, one count of unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl under 13, and four counts of indecent assault.
Glitter, dressed in a black velvet coat and burgundy scarf, showed no reaction as he was led from the dock after he was sentenced at London’s Southwark Crown Court.
There was standing room only in court as loyal ‘fans’ of the singer gathered in the public gallery to see him learn his fate.
Sentencing, Judge Alistair McCreath said he could find “no real evidence” that Gadd had atoned for his crimes.
Sentencing the singer 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 effected 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.”
He added: “The offences for which I must pass sentence today took place many years ago at a time when in particular, in respect of one of them, the maximum sentence was considerably lower than that which is now available.”
Sallie Bennett-Jenkins QC, defending, told the court that Gadd had been subject to a “very high degree of vilification” and “demonification” in the press after being jailed in Vietnam in 2006 for molesting two girls aged 11 and 12.
She said he had led “an increasingly isolated life” for the last decade and had been unable to walk down the street “without being the subject of vilification”.
The disgraced star appears to still have support despite his horrendous crimes as ‘fans’ were outside court from 8am this morning.
One Fan of Gary Glitter sitting in court was flicking through an old Jackie magazine with pictures of the singer in it as the court waited for sentencing – Other fans had waited outside the court for hours.
Glitter was found guilty of 1 count of attempted rape,4 counts of indecent assault & 1 count of sexual intercourse with girl under age of 13
In early February he was found guilty of having sex with a girl under the age of 13.
He was also convicted of one count of attempted rape and four counts of indecent assault after a three week trial in which he firmly denied the allegations.
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 had sex with 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.
September 2011
Disgraced Gary Glitter wears ridiculous disguise as he makes a rare public outing
Shamed popstar Gary Glitter was photographed near his London flat recently while sporting a ridiculous grey wig.
It is one of the many disguises that the convicted sex offender favours in order to protect himself from unwanted attention.
However he is now gradually adjusting to going out in public once more, three years after his return from Vietnam.
The 67-year-old has a series of wigs that he wears when out and about in London, and the grey tufty number certainly was not making him look any less ludicrous – or more conspicuous.
Glitter, 66, real name Paul Gadd, is on the sex offenders’ register and is banned from 19 countries.
He was jailed in Vietnam for sexually assaulting two girls aged 10 and 11 and was deported back to the UK in 2008.
In 1999 he was imprisoned for possessing child pornography.
Since his return to the UK he has rarely been seen but he may be starting to become accustomed to living a normal life again.
The former glam rock star’s music has largely been banned from the airways since his fall from grace.
He had several hit songs during the 1970s and continued to record into the 1980s and 1990s.
Earlier this year, Gwyneth Paltrow was criticised for performing one of Glitter’s songs on US TV show Glee.
Children’s charities condemned the notion that her rendition of Do You Wanna Touch Me would earn Glitter money in royalty payments.
February 2007
Glitter child abuse sentence cut
Pop star Gary Glitter has had his three-year child molestation sentence in Vietnam reduced by three months.
Glitter, real name Paul Francis Gadd, was convicted of the sexual abuse of two Vietnamese girls in March 2006.
Tran Thi Thien Huong, a judge on the deciding panel, said the decision under a national amnesty means Glitter will now be released in August 2008.
The incidents involved two girls aged 10 and 11 from the southern coastal city of Vung Tau.
Vietnam traditionally reduces the sentences of inmates with good prison records as part of a nationwide Lunar New Year jail amnesty.
Glitter could have had his sentence reduced by up to half under the amnesty.
Glitter’s lawyer had earlier told journalists his client could be freed from Thu Duc prison, in the south of the country, in as little as a week.
The panel of three judges said they had to balance Glitter’s good behaviour in prison with the seriousness of the crimes he had committed. Other amnesties could reduce his sentence further.
Christine Beddoe, director of child protection group Ecpat UK, said she was “disappointed” that Glitter’s sentence had been cut.
“Ecpat UK fully believes that Paul Gadd should serve the fullest sentence in order to protect children in Vietnam and the rest of the world,” she said.
“We believe that the British government must request his deportation at the end of his sentence and immediate return to the UK, and he should be put on the sex offenders’ register.”
After a two-day trial that attracted a great deal of media attention, Glitter was jailed and ordered to pay 5m Vietnamese dong (£180/$315) to his victims’ families. He has been in jail since November 2005.
Child sexual abuse images
Ahead of the decision, Glitter’s lawyer, Le Thanh Kinh, was optimistic that the judges would reduce the sentence.
He said: “Glitter is an old man and he is not in good health. And he has paid compensation to the victims as required by the court.”
Glitter was convicted of possessing child pornography in the UK in 1999 and served half of a four-month jail sentence.
He later went to Cambodia, which permanently expelled him in 2002.
