Gary Glitter

The glam rock singer was jailed in 2015 for sexually abusing three schoolgirls.

His third victim was less than 10 years old when he crept into her bed and tried to rape her in 1975. They can also be barred from having unsupervised contact with children and using the internet. Sentencing the singer, Judge Alistair McCreath said all the victims were “profoundly affected” by the abuse.

Gadd has previously been jailed in Vietnam on child abuse charges. The 79-year-old singer, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was freed from a prison in Dorset, ...

The 79-year-old singer, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was freed from a prison in Dorset, in south-west England. - The disgraced 79-year-old singer, real name Paul Gadd, was freed from a prison in Dorset in the south-west of England Former pop star Gary Glitter has been released from prison in England on Friday after serving half of a 16-year prison sentence for sexually abusing three young girls in the 1970s.

A victim of notorious child sex abuser said his release from prison “was not the justice” she was promised.

He was sentenced in 2015 for attempted rape, four counts of indecent assault and one of having sex with a girl under 13. The court heard Glitter preyed on his vulnerable victims whose claims he thought would not be believed because of his celebrity, prosecutors said. News that Glitter would be released early from prison emerged in February last year.

Pedophile pop star Gary Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, has been released from prison after serving half of his 16-year sentence for sexually.

In 2002, he was expelled from Cambodia amid reports of sex crime allegations and in March 2006 he was convicted of sexually abusing two girls, aged 10 and 11, in Vietnam and spent two-and-a-half years in jail. His third victim was less than 10 years old when he crept into her bed and tried to rape her in 1975. The disgraced glam rock singer — who had a string of chart hits in the 1970s — was jailed in 2015 for sexually abusing the girls.

Disgraced glam rocker Gary Glitter has been released from prison halfway through a 16-year sentence after being convicted of child sex abuse charges.

However, in the aftermath of (only after nearly 20 countries refused him entry). [the pedophile scandal involving Top of the Pops host Jimmy Savile](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Yewtree), Glitter was [arrested](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/gary-glitter-arrested-in-bbc-sex-abuse-case-181645/) and [charged](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/gary-glitter-charged-with-eight-child-sex-offenses-197983/) with child sex offenses stemming from multiple incidents that occurred between 1975 and 1980. While he avoided the death penalty by firing squad, Glitter was “If the offender breaches these conditions at any point, they can go back behind bars,” a Ministry of Justice spokesperson said. The 78-year-old singer born Paul Gadd, whose biggest U.S.