Gary Glitter, a former British pop star sentenced in 2015 to 16 years in prison for sexually assaulting three minors, was reincarcerated on Monday for violating the conditions of his release, according to probation services.
Released on February 3, the 79-year-old ex-singer, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was convicted in 2015 of attempted rape, four indecent assaults and having had sex with a woman. minor.
Glam rock star
He was released from prison halfway through his term, after eight years behind bars.
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Protecting the public is our number one priority, which is why we set strict release conditions and when offenders violate them, we have no hesitation in returning them to custody," a Probation Services spokesperson said
. .
Gary Glitter was at the height of fame when he tackled these minors.
The former ' glam rock
' star
, who had been branded by police as a '
recidivist sexual predator
', had assaulted two young girls aged 12 and 13 by luring them into his dressing room and isolating them from their mothers.
The youngest victim was under 10 when he tried to rape her in 1975.
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Glitter, "
glitter
" in English, was arrested on October 28, 2012 in London, while pedophilia scandals involving old glories of show biz multiplied in the United Kingdom.
He had already been arrested in 1997 and sentenced to four months in prison for downloading child pornography onto his computer.
Fleeing the press, he took refuge in Cambodia, from where he was expelled in 2002 on charges of pedophilia.
He was then sentenced in 2006 to three years in prison in Vietnam for lewd acts on two minors.
After serving a sentence of two years and nine months, he returned to the United Kingdom in 2008. Gary Glitter had his heyday in the 1970s, notably with his title "I'm the Leader of the Gang (
I am)
”.
