The singer was first jailed in 1999, when he admitted possessing 4,000 images of child pornography. He was at the height of his fame when he attacked his victims, and investigators said he targeted young girls who were in awe of him. Glitter was convicted in 2015 of one count of attempted rape, four counts of indecent assault and one count of sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of 13. "That's why we set tough licence conditions and when offenders breach them, we don't hesitate to return them to custody." Deported from Cambodia and convicted in Vietnam "Protecting the public is our number one priority," a spokesperson for the service said. In Gadd's case, these included being closely monitored by the police and Probation Service and being fitted with a GPS tag. He was automatically released after serving half his sentence but, like all convicted sex offenders, was subject to licence conditions.
Glitter - whose real name is Paul Gadd - was freed in early February from a low-security jail in Portland, southern England. He tried to perform again at HMP The Verne in Dorset, where he is serving his time – but was said to have left the stage in tears when disgusted lags jeered him.The 79-year-old singer - who had a string of 1970s' chart hits before being convicted in 2015 for sexually abusing three schoolgirls - had breached his release licence conditions, the service added.Īny subsequent re-release will be a matter for the Parole Board to consider. The pervert was sentenced to 16 years in 2015 for sexually abusing three girls between 19. Twisted Glitter later became the first person arrested – and the fifth suspect charged – under Operation Yewtree, the Met Police probe in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal. In 2002, he was thrown out of Cambodia for suspected child abuse after living in the country for three years and later jailed for three years in Vietnam for abusing two girls, aged 10 and 11.
The disgraced star fled abroad upon his release.
#GARY GLITTER GANG TV#
Glitter served two months in jail after a 1999 conviction and his back catalogue was purged from playlists, his record deal cancelled and his live performances edited out of TV show repeats. He enjoyed occasional comebacks in the 1980s and 1990s, cleaning himself up and touring as a student novelty act.īut it all came crashing down in 1997, when an engineer servicing his laptop found thousands of child abuse images saved on its hard drive. The singer – born Paul Francis Gadd in Banbury, Oxfordshire, in 1944 – enjoyed a massive fan base and sold 18 million records in his heyday.īut as the glam era fizzled out, he found himself divorced, bankrupt and struggling with alcohol addiction. He notched 11 consecutive top 10 singles from 1972 to 1975 and was said to own 30 stage suits and 50 pairs of platform shoes. Gary Glitter’s outlandish glam rock style made him one of the world’s most recognisable pop icons. From Leader of the Gang to a fiend jeered by lags at jail gig His surroundings are said to be “cushy” with lags allowed to walk around their wing freely, 24 hours a day. Glitter, jailed in 2015, is serving his time at HMP The Verne, a Category C jail exclusively for sex offenders on the Isle of Portland in Dorset. She would like to move to Britain to be nearer to Gary Glitter but that really depends on him.” "She is currently trying to sell the flat he bought her and move away from Cuba. Shamed Glitter's hits include I’m the Leader of the Gang and Do You Wanna Touch Me
0 kommentar(er)
