Gary Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was sentenced to 16 years in jail (Picture: AFP)
Gary Glitter will ‘probably die in prison’ after being recalled to jail, the former head of Scotland Yard’s Paedophile Unit has said.
Glitter, 78, was released from prison in early February after serving half of a 16-year sentence for sexually abusing three young girls decades ago.
Leaving the low-security HMP Verne on the Isle of Portland, Glitter was fitted with a GPS tag and made to live in ‘the strictest license conditions’.
But the Probation Service said yesterday that the ex-glam rock singer, real name Paul Gadd, will be sent back behind bars for breaking his bail conditions.
His career crashed after a Mark Thomas/REX/Shutterstock)
The Ministry of Justice did not specify how Glitter violated the terms of his release, though reports claimed he tried to access the Dark Web on a mobile phone.
Retired Detective Superintendent Michael Hames told Times Radio that Glitter was ‘not allowed to conduct certain things on his phone’.
He added: ‘As far as Gadd is concerned, he is so dangerous and so fixated on his offending behaviour that he’ll never stop – he’s gone too far.
‘He’s arrogant, he’s opinionated.
‘He’s someone who’s always going to be a danger to children, quite frankly.’
‘No doubt he’ll serve the next eight years of his sentence,’ Hames added, ‘he’ll probably die in prison.’
Glitter rose to fame during the 1970s heyday of glam rock with hits such as Rock and Roll Part 2 – he would sell more than 20 million records.
The disgraced singer rose to fame in the 1970s (Picture: Shutterstock)
Yet his career crashed when he was arrested in 1999 and convicted of possessing more than 4,000 indecent pictures of children.
Fleeing from the UK and ending up in Vietnam, the authorities would soon sentence him in 2006 to three years in prison for committing obscene acts with underage girls.
The convicted paedophile was arrested in 2012 as the sexual abuse scandal surrounding the late TV host Jimmy Savile exposed further abuse.
Glitter was convicted on one count of attempted rape, four counts of indecent assault and one count of sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of 13 between 1977 and 1980.
Prosecutors described how he abused his swelling fame to assault his young fans. In the mid-1970s, he tried to force himself on a girl who was younger than 10 at the time.
As Glitter left the trial, he blew kisses.
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‘He’ll never stop – he’s gone too far.’