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Disgraced pedophile Gary Glitter has been released from prison, despite only serving half of his 16-year sexual assault sentence.
The embarrassed pop star, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was jailed in 2015 for a series of child sex crimes against three schoolgirls.
Glitter has three days to register her name with the local police station now that she is out of HMP The Verne.
At one time she had been one of the UK’s most famous pop stars, with hits being frequently played and used in films and on television.
But it was in 1997 that he took his Toshiba laptop for repair at a PC World branch in Bristol, not far from a country house he owned in Wedmore, Somerset.
Disgraced pedophile Gary Glitter has been released from prison this morning
The embarrassed pop star, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was jailed for 16 years in 2015 for sexual offenses against a girl under the age of 13.
A library of child pornography was discovered on the hard drive and he was unmasked as the predatory pedophile he is known today.
Now that she’s free, Glitter must notify authorities seven days in advance of any travel abroad, and officers can ban any travel if they fear the risk of further crime.
The sexual predator will also have to wear a tag and report to the police if they enter into a relationship with someone who has a child under the age of 18.
The Justice Ministry said released sex offenders are monitored by police and the Probation Service and can be re-imprisoned if they violate strict conditions.
It follows reports that Glitter’s 17-year-old daughter works grueling 12-hour shifts at a poultry factory in Vietnam.
Truc Ly’s mother, Tran Thi Kim Oanh, said: “He should take responsibility and help her, but I don’t think he ever will.”
Truc Ly said: “I miss my school and my friends, but it’s too late to go back to school even if I wanted to.” I just want to take care of my mother now.
When asked about hobbies, Truc Ly said: ‘I don’t have time. I’m always working. I get up, work, eat, take a shower, and then go to bed at 9 at night.
She works in an industrial complex near the Cambodian border, working as much overtime as she can and giving half her salary to her mother in child labor that was illegal until she turned 17 last month.
Teachers said Truc Ly was destined for university but dropped out at age 12 when her family could no longer pay school fees.
She moved 300 miles to work alongside her mother at the factory, using a forged ID card to secure her job three years ago.
She sticks labels on packages of processed chicken, some for British shops, every day from 7am to 7pm.
Glitter was released in 2008 and returned to Britain, where he was jailed again in 2015 for child sexual abuse dating back to the 1970s.
His mother, Oanh, a former bar girl, was Glitter’s girlfriend before he was jailed in Vietnam in 2006 for sexually abusing ten- and eleven-year-old girls.
He had been arrested after The Mail on Sunday confronted him and reported him to the police.
He was released in 2008 and returned to Britain, where he was jailed again in 2015 for child sexual abuse dating back to the 1970s.
He broke off contact with Oanh, who was heavily pregnant and then 24, when she asked him to pay her maternity bills weeks before her arrest and sent her home by bus with a wad of £100 worth of notes.
He did not respond to her letters asking her to take a DNA test and pay for Truc Ly to stay at the school.
Oanh had a Vietnamese boyfriend at the time she was sleeping with Glitter, but he took one look at Truc Ly in the hospital and dumped her, saying, “That’s not my baby.” She looks like a westerner.
After Glitter was jailed in Britain in 2015, Oanh wrote another unanswered letter asking her to pay for her to continue studying, saying: “You would be so proud of her.”
Now out of jail, Glitter faces compensation claims from the women he raped as children in Vietnam 18 years ago.
Glitter, born Paul Gadd, has holdings including a £2m central London apartment that is nominally owned by a limited company controlled by a former partner.
He also receives digital broadcast royalties that add up to thousands of pounds every month.
Glitter, who co-wrote many of his hits with Mike Leander, currently has 723,464 monthly listeners on Spotify.
Spotify only pays a small percentage per stream, but 723,464 streams equals $2,300 dollars or £1,900 per month.
Glitter’s back catalog is also available on Apple, which doesn’t disclose artists’ monthly listening figures.
‘Digital [performance] Royalties from the broadcast tend to go to the songwriter, said Amy Pruett, an intellectual property lawyer with the US law firm Williams Mullen.