Disgraced British pop star and convicted pedophile Gary Glitter was released from prison Friday after serving just half of his 16-year sentence.
Glitter, born Paul Francis Gadd, was let out from Dorset’s HMP The Verne prison in England, PA News reports.
The “Do You Wanna Touch Me” singer was caged in 2015 after he sexually abused three young girls, all under the age of 13, at the peak of his fame within the Nineteen Seventies.
The 79-year-old’s third victim was under the age of 10. He snuck into her bed and tried to rape her back in 1975.
Glitter reached global stardom within the Nineteen Seventies and 80s — but his success was short-lived after he was caught downloading 4,000 child pornography images in 1999, landing him in jail for just 4 months.
His string of pedophilic crimes continued into the early 2000s when he was expelled from Cambodia amid reports of sex crime allegations.
He was convicted of getting sex with a minor in Vietnam in 2006. He was freed after serving 3 years in jail there and was ordered to register as a sex offender upon return to home soil.
In a bid to perform his heinous crimes, Glitter separated the young girls from their parents by inviting them backstage at his gigs.
He then took advantage of them in his dressing room.
“It’s difficult to overstate the depravity of this dreadful behavior,” Judge Alistair McCreath said at his sentencing, adding that he wished he could put Glitter behind bars for longer, but was constrained by sentencing restrictions for crimes committed within the Nineteen Seventies.
Now out of prison, Glitter shall be subject to license conditions which suggests he may have to follow a strict algorithm to serve locally.
The singer’s 1972 hit “Rock and Roll Part 2” was featured within the 2019 movie “Joker.”
Disgraced British pop star and convicted pedophile Gary Glitter was released from prison Friday after serving just half of his 16-year sentence.
Glitter, born Paul Francis Gadd, was let out from Dorset’s HMP The Verne prison in England, PA News reports.
The “Do You Wanna Touch Me” singer was caged in 2015 after he sexually abused three young girls, all under the age of 13, at the peak of his fame within the Nineteen Seventies.
The 79-year-old’s third victim was under the age of 10. He snuck into her bed and tried to rape her back in 1975.
Glitter reached global stardom within the Nineteen Seventies and 80s — but his success was short-lived after he was caught downloading 4,000 child pornography images in 1999, landing him in jail for just 4 months.
His string of pedophilic crimes continued into the early 2000s when he was expelled from Cambodia amid reports of sex crime allegations.
He was convicted of getting sex with a minor in Vietnam in 2006. He was freed after serving 3 years in jail there and was ordered to register as a sex offender upon return to home soil.
In a bid to perform his heinous crimes, Glitter separated the young girls from their parents by inviting them backstage at his gigs.
He then took advantage of them in his dressing room.
“It’s difficult to overstate the depravity of this dreadful behavior,” Judge Alistair McCreath said at his sentencing, adding that he wished he could put Glitter behind bars for longer, but was constrained by sentencing restrictions for crimes committed within the Nineteen Seventies.
Now out of prison, Glitter shall be subject to license conditions which suggests he may have to follow a strict algorithm to serve locally.
The singer’s 1972 hit “Rock and Roll Part 2” was featured within the 2019 movie “Joker.”
