‘Gary Glitter is still a danger to society’: Victim says the ‘monster’ pop singer ‘ruined her life’

One of Gary Glitter’s victims snapped, saying she had been “let down” by the justice system and warning that he remains a danger to society after his release from prison, despite only serving half his sentence. of sexual abuse of 16 years.

The disgraced pedophile, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was released from prison today, despite only serving half of his 16-year sexual assault sentence.

Glitter was jailed in 2015 for a series of child sex offenses with three schoolgirls and has just three days to register his name with the local police station now that he is out of HMP The Verne.

The victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told MailOnline: “It has hit me so hard, I can’t believe this is happening to me.” I can not do this anymore.

He should never get out of prison for what he did. He just turned eight, but I’m serving a life sentence. I will never be able to forget what this monster did to me and I am still struggling to deal with it. I truly believe that he is still a danger to society, who knows what he might do?

Fighting back tears, she cried: ‘What he did to me affected my whole family and ruined my life. I feel like the justice system has let me down and Glitter has attacked me again.

‘This is not OK. I’m sorry, it’s too much for me, I can’t handle what happened today, it brought back too many painful memories.

The victim, now 50, is one of three schoolgirls attacked by Glitter, 78, whose real name is Paul Gadd when he was at the height of his fame in the 1970s.

The disgraced pop star was jailed in 2015 for his crimes.

The victim was 12 years old at the time of the attack and gave moving testimony during Glitter’s trial, describing how the musician showered her with champagne in her hotel room before raping her.

She revealed how when she was young she had a crush on Glitter and had covered her bedroom walls and ceiling with posters of the rock star at her family home.

The victim told the court she was “ecstatic” when she went to see Glitter with her music-loving mother, who introduced her to the heartthrob backstage at Baileys nightclub in Leicester in 1977.

Glitter signed their shiny gold C&A jackets for them, then drank Moet champagne with the mother and daughter before taking the schoolgirl back to her suite at the Holiday Inn.

At the hotel, Glitter regaled her guests with stories about the dead comedian Spike Milligan.

The woman told the court: ‘He said Spike Milligan had been looking for him and he had a gun and he was crazy and he thought Gary slept with his wife.

“He asked us if we’d ever seen his wife and we said no, and he said she was ugly and he wouldn’t have done that.”

“He hadn’t said much, but I told him ‘That’s chronic’ and he thought it was funny.”

After her mother had too much to drink, Glitter’s songwriting partner Mike Leander put her to bed.

The court heard that Glitter then took the girl into a room and took the champagne and glasses with him.

Crying as she testified, she told the jury: ‘He kissed me on the mouth.

Then he started walking towards me and we fell on the bed.

She added: “She had her tongue in my mouth and she couldn’t breathe so I put my hands on her head to push her head back.”

“She said never, ever touch her hair, no one can touch her hair, she said she had a phobia of people touching her hair.”

The wigged rocker pulled up her shirt and berated her when she covered her chest.

The woman revealed that he then had sex with her ‘throughout the night’ and that she only complied out of fear of letting her mother down.

She said: “I was so confused because my mum was gone so I didn’t know what I wanted her to do.”

“She really loved this guy, so I guess I can’t bother her, and she was trying to be really grown up because I’ve been in there drinking and smoking.”

She added: “I didn’t know if she knew this was happening, if this was what she was supposed to do.”

“I remember the champagne going into my mouth (from Glitter’s) and choking me.”

The woman said in her testimony that she then left with her mother in the morning but did not tell her what had happened.

Later, when a family friend visited the girl’s bedroom, still covered in Glitter’s likeness, he would discover faded red roses from the musician and a note reading “I love Gary”.

At one point, Glitter had been one of the UK’s most famous pop stars, with hits being frequently played and used in films and on television.

But in 1997 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.

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 is 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.

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 associate.

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 at the US law firm Williams Mullen.