Gary Glitter

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.

A Ministry of Justice spokesperson told the BBC that "sex offenders like Paul Gadd are closely monitored" by the police and probation officers, and "face some ...

Gadd will not be added to the sex offenders' register for these crimes, because they were committed before the registry was introduced. The allegations that led to Gadd's imprisonment came to light when he became the first person to be arrested under Operation Yewtree - the investigation launched by the Met in 2012 in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal. However, he was already ordered to sign the register for life when he returned to the UK after he was found guilty of sexually abusing two young girls in Vietnam in 2006. He described Gadd's abuse of a girl under 10 as "appalling" and said: "It is difficult to overstate the depravity of this dreadful behaviour." A Ministry of Justice spokesperson told the BBC that "sex offenders like Paul Gadd are closely monitored" by the police and probation officers, and "face some of the strictest licence conditions". He was one of the biggest music stars of the 1970s.

He was released after serving half of a 16-year prison sentence for sexually abusing three young girls in the 1970s.

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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.

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.