Paedophile pop star Gary Glitter recalled to prison after breach
Gary Glitter, a former pop star, has been returned to prison for breaching the terms of his release, according to the Probation Service.
Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, had been released from prison in February, after serving half of his 16-year sentence for sexually abusing three schoolgirls. He was released on licence conditions that included wearing a GPS tag.
He had been one of the biggest music stars of the 1970s. In 2015, he was jailed for attempted rape, indecent assault and sex with a girl under 13.
Appalling crimes
He was not added to the sex offenders register for his past crimes against young girls, he was required to register for life upon his return to the UK after being found guilty of sexually abusing two girls in Vietnam in 2006.
Gadd,79, committed these heinous acts when he was at the height of his fame, inviting two girls backstage to his dressing room where he attacked them. His youngest victim was under 10 years old when he attempted to rape her in 1975.
Despite denying the allegations, Gadd was found guilty and sentenced in 2015. Judge McCreath stated that he found no evidence of Gadd atoning for his crimes and called his abuse of a young girl “appalling”.
Gadd’s crimes came to light during Operation Yewtree, an investigation launched by the Metropolitan Police in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal.
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Gadd, who had three UK number-one hits including “I’m the Leader of the Gang (I am!)”, was first convicted in 1999 for possessing thousands of images depicting child sex abuse, which led to his imprisonment for four months. He was later expelled from Cambodia in 2002 amidst sex crime allegations and was convicted of sexually abusing two young girls in Vietnam in 2006, serving two and a half years in jail. Upon returning to the UK in 2008, he was required to sign the sex offenders register. In 2012, detectives arrested him at his London home before the trial for his latest conviction in 2015.
