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Gary Glitter 'returns to UK next week'
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by Dave Keating | August 14, 2008 at 03:11 am
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Former glam rocker Gary Glitter, who has been in prison in Vietnam for child molestation, is apparently being released early under a national amnesty and returned to the UK, where he is a citizen.
Gary Glitter will be deported to Britain on Tuesday after serving 27 months in prison in Vietnam for child molestation, his lawyer has said.
Le Thanh Kinh told news agencies that the disgraced rock star, real name Paul Gadd, would be free to go wherever he wanted after returning to the UK.
Glitter, 63, was convicted in 2006 for molesting two girls aged 11 and 12.
The Home Office said anyone convicted of sex offences overseas would be met by police on arrival and interviewed.
Former glam rocker Glitter has been held since November 2005. His three-year sentence was cut last year under a national amnesty.
His lawyer told Reuters news agency: "My client will have to board a flight to London, his ticket has been bought by the authorities here.
"After he lands in London, he's free to go wherever he wants."
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at 14:22 on August 22nd, 2008
Gary Glitter apparently fears for his life and has asked for police protection all year round. I believe that the money spent on protecting him, should rather be spent on protecting all the young children in the area where he chooses to live. He has 'murdered' two children's lives by sexually abusing them. They may never recover from this trauma. If people want to kill him, let them go ahead, he deserves nothing else. I am a victim of sexual abuse and although I have forgiven my abusers, I have no pity for people who 'murder' children emotionally.
H.Clark