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Gadd has been arrested for breaching his conditions
Former pop star Gary Glitter whose real name is Paul Gadd, has been released from prison in England on Friday after serving half of a 16-year prison sentence for the sexual abuse of minors. Gadd will be heavily monitored and clamped with a GPS tag.
He was found guilty 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.
Gadd was arrested in October 2012 under Operation Yewtree, the national investigation launched in the wake of the child abuse scandal surrounding the late BBC entertainer Jimmy Savile.
Two girls, aged 12 and 13, were attacked by Glitter after he invited them backstage to his dressing room and isolated them from their mothers. His youngest victim was below the age of 10 when he crept into her bed and tried to rape her in 1975.
“It is difficult to overstate the depravity of this dreadful behaviour,” Judge Alistair McCreath said at Southwark crown court at the time.
Gadd is best known for the hit "Rock & Roll (Part 2)," released in 1972, but he fell into disgrace after being convicted on charges in Vietnam.
He served a total of two years and nine months for child abuse after being arrested in Ho Chi Minh City in 2005.
Former pop star Gary Glitter whose real name is Paul Gadd, has been released from prison in England on Friday after serving half of a 16-year prison sentence for the sexual abuse of minors. Gadd will be heavily monitored and clamped with a GPS tag.
He was found guilty 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.
Gadd was arrested in October 2012 under Operation Yewtree, the national investigation launched in the wake of the child abuse scandal surrounding the late BBC entertainer Jimmy Savile.
Two girls, aged 12 and 13, were attacked by Glitter after he invited them backstage to his dressing room and isolated them from their mothers. His youngest victim was below the age of 10 when he crept into her bed and tried to rape her in 1975.
“It is difficult to overstate the depravity of this dreadful behaviour,” Judge Alistair McCreath said at Southwark crown court at the time.
Gadd is best known for the hit "Rock & Roll (Part 2)," released in 1972, but he fell into disgrace after being convicted on charges in Vietnam.
He served a total of two years and nine months for child abuse after being arrested in Ho Chi Minh City in 2005.
Gary Glitter: all the former singer’s sexual abuse convictions
Glitter has faced multiple jail sentences for abuse of girls in the UK and Vietnam
www.theguardian.com
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