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Vietnam to deport Glitter after jail time for child sex abuse


HANOI (AFP) — Gary Glitter, a one-time British glam rocker, is set for release Tuesday from his Vietnamese prison where he has spent two years and nine months for child sexual molestation, officials say.

The disgraced 1970s pop star, once famed for his flamboyant bouffant wigs and silver jumpsuits, faces immediate deportation from communist Vietnam to his home country, according to his lawyer Le Thanh Kinh.

Glitter, 64, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, was arrested in Vietnam in November 2005 and convicted the following March of committing obscene acts with two girls then aged 11 and 12 in the resort town of Vung Tau.

He was sentenced to three years in jail, the minimum term under Vietnamese law, which was cut by three months as part of national sentence reductions for the traditional Tet Lunar New Year in 2007.

The jail time in Vietnam was a new low point for Glitter, who had fallen from grace decades after he was a king of the "glam pop" era, a time of showmen in platform shoes, sequinned dresses and heavy make-up.

The pop star, who sold more then 20 million records, had long faded into obscurity when he hit the headlines in 1997 after a computer repair shop found his hard-drive was loaded with child pornography.

Glitter was arrested and two years later sentenced to four months' jail, of which he served two. The judge at his trial said the more than 4,000 images were "of the very, very worst possible type."

Pursued by the British media, Glitter reportedly moved to Cuba, then resettled in Cambodia, where he lived on and off for years before he was expelled in 2002 after reportedly trawling for child sex.

He later returned to Phnom Penh, where he met three Vietnamese prostitutes, according to prosecutors at his trial.

The women came to live with him in a villa in Vung Tau -- a Vietnamese oil industry and resort town with an extensive red-light industry -- where they helped him procure the children for sexual acts.

A British citizen there alerted a London newspaper, which tracked Glitter down and reported that he was living with a teenage girl.

Glitter was arrested at Ho Chi Minh City's international airport on November 19 while trying to board a flight to Thailand.

The former pop star, who paid 2,000 dollars in compensation to the family of each victim, evaded the more serious charge of child rape, which carries a maximum penalty of death by firing squad in Vietnam.

The judge who presided over the closed trial, Hoang Thanh Tung, later called Glitter "sick" and "abnormal," detailing instances of fondling, oral sex and more disturbing sexual acts with the children.

Glitter maintained his innocence and claimed he was teaching the girls English, allowing them to stay overnight because they were scared of ghosts.

After the verdict Glitter, his head shaved except for a grey ponytail and a goatee, blamed a media "conspiracy" as he was bundled into a police van.

Years later his odyssey continues, but not the way he had hoped.

In recent Vietnamese newspaper interviews from his cell at the Z30D Thu Duc prison in southern Binh Thuan province, he announced plans to move to Singapore or Hong Kong after his release and to start recording music again.

Instead, Vietnam will send him back to his home country, his lawyer said.

"I paid for the ticket for him," Kinh told AFP last week. "He's a British citizen. (Vietnam) wants him to go back to the UK."

The British embassy has declined to comment on the case

At least the media & joe public will be watching his every move, he wont be able to break wind without a camera flashing to catch him out..

I worry more about the Paedophiles which are nameless and faceless to us all..who may be living around our corners sizing up our kids. :o((

Anarchy is not the answer. But, I admit I don't know what is!

can't put on here how i feel, there is one 7 miles away from us he was my daughters friend stepdad he is not allowed in our village, the girl says she will have her day and she wont be on her own

just a thought if they were castrated could they still have have hand relieve , i hope ive put that as reasonable as i can, can't ask specky cause dont think he has one

If I posted what I would like to do to the likes of him and that brady scum i would be banned for life!!!!!

had our country have sentenced him properly the last time ,el creepoid would ,nt have abused those poor kids in vietnam.
i also dont have the time to look for a reason to why they do it.i just want them away from any children.i know its always been around.but surely we in these times can sort a good punishment out.i opt for anthrax island,and left there.

Twinkly.

I so agree with you.would love to get my hands on all of them.


Just make them all into Eunuchs and chop their hands off,can't touch anyone then.

Bur personnally I would put them in a room full of the victims mothers,they would come out only in a coffin.

If I get a ban then free speech counts for nothiing.

Puss

If a man is castrated it decreases his sex drive sometimes he loses it altogether, but yes he would if he had urges still be able to relieve himself as that organ is still intact.

They also may lose bodyhair, strength, muscle and can suffer with depression.

Dont sound nice but hey they took that risk when they harmed children.

Sue...you were much more polite than i would have been lol

I don't have children so don't have that maternal instinct that mothers have but animals like him and brady make me sick to my stomach!...yes let the victims mums and dads loose on them...they wouldn't do it again in a hurry!!!!!

Castrate him, Slowly without anesthetic.

here here McB

thanks jax , that should be chopped of to then xx

Jax, with no dangly bits he couldn't relieve himself, he'd be trying all day & wear himself out lol

Hands up! Who would like to sit next to him on the plane journey?

ME ,HE MAY GET ON THE PLANE BUT HE,D NOT GET OFF.XX

he has just been put on the plane home

according to the news



wonders who wants to be in his gang now not me

reggie look at pm i sent ya.....now u can see what decent folks are up againstxxxx

i am shocked to read it our Ronnie

they should be put to sleep

like the animals they are

i know hun,and guess what the creeps out as we speakxxxxxxxxxxxxxx