Pop pedophile Gary Glitter ‘could be released AGAIN in MONTHS after being called back to prison for watching videos of young girls doing ballet’: Fury as disgraced rock star gets ‘new parole’
Pop pedophile Gary Glitter could reportedly be released from prison within months, less than half a year after being called back to prison for watching footage of young girls dancing ballet.
Victims and former senior police officers have expressed anger as the disgraced rock star was given another parole hearing and will plead for his release in the fall. The sun reports.
Glitter, 79, was serving a 16-year prison sentence for historic sexual assaults on three young girls but was released halfway through his term.
But he was called back to prison in March after being caught viewing images of young girls on YouTube and TikTok.
The pervert watched girls as young as eight in leotards and short skirts as they performed in ballet shows and calisthenics.
Pop pedophile Gary Glitter (pictured in 1972) could reportedly be released from prison within months, less than half a year after he was called back to prison for watching footage of young girls doing ballet
Pop pedophile Gary Glitter (pictured) was recalled to prison after being clocked watching footage of young girls doing ballet
Checks on his phone revealed that he had also downloaded and uninstalled an app called DuckDuckGo, which can provide access to the dark web.
Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, said he only watched the videos because he was interested in performing arts.
Parole Board bosses have confirmed that Glitter will be released from sex offender prison, The Verne in Dorset, with immediate effect if he successfully pleads his case.
Former police officer who founded the Metropolitan Police’s pedophile unit, Michael Hames, told The Sun it’s “bizarre” that they’re giving him a parole hearing not long after his recall.
He also said the pedophile “is and will continue to be a danger to children,” noting that he has a clear “lack of remorse” for his actions.
The lawyer for one of Glitter’s victims, Richard Scorer, told the newspaper his client wants Glitter ‘locked up as long as possible’ and urged the Parole Board to use ‘common sense’ to protect the public from him .
He said it would be “madness” to release the pedophile.
The Parole Board told The Sun: “We can confirm that the review of Paul Gadd’s parole is following standard processes.”
In February, Glitter was released from HMP The Verne in Dorset after serving half of his 18-year sentence for molesting three girls in the 1970s.
Just 38 days later, Glitter was recalled to prison in March and is now at HMP The Verne sex offender prison in Dorset.
It will be at least a year before he can get paroled again, meaning the aging former rock star could die in prison.
When the 78-year-old was released in February, he was only halfway through his 16-year prison sentence for sexually assaulting three schoolgirls.
He was at the height of his fame when he preyed on his victims, who thought no one would believe their claims because of his celebrity status.
The crimes came to light almost 40 years after they took place, when Glitter became the first person to be arrested under Operation Yewtree – the investigation launched by the Metropolitan Police in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal.
His fall from grace occurred years earlier, after he admitted to possessing 4,000 child pornography images and was jailed for four months in 1999.
He was sent to prison in Vietnam in 2006 for sexually abusing two girls and was later imprisoned again in Britain in 2015.
Glitter was released from a bail hostel along with six other convicted child molesters, it emerged after the former pop star was recalled to prison for violating his licensing terms.
Glitter was sent back to prison on March 13, after being secretly filmed browsing a smartphone and referencing the Dark Web, just a month after his release.
He stayed in a hostel in the south of England with six other child molesters who had been released on bail.
Gary Glitter prison photo taken in Vietnam in 2007 where he spent three years for child abuse
Glitter was previously filmed appearing to discuss how to access the Dark Web with his fellow residents at the hostel, in footage obtained by The sun.
The convicted pedophile, pictured wearing a hat and black hoodie, stares at a smartphone as he talks to others in the room.
He says, ‘Shall I get rid of this duck duck?’
Another man says, “Yeah, I wouldn’t do that if I were you.”
Glitter adds: ‘So what do I do now? Let’s try to find this onion. Step-by-step.’
‘Duck duck’ refers to DuckDuckGo, a search engine that protects users’ privacy, while an ‘Onion’ refers to The Onion Router (Tor), which can be used to access the Dark Web.
Pedophiles often use the Dark Web to access child sex material.
Glitter’s classified footage was sent to probation, which resulted in him being sent back to prison.