Gary Glitter 'could return to Britain early' after surviving heart attack in prison

celeb_2006 · January 15th, 2007, 01:29 PM

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Former British glam rocker Gary Glitter, convicted of molesting two Vietnamese girls, may be released early from his three-year sentence, a prison official said Wednesday.
Glitter, 62, is on a list of inmates being considered for early release as part of next month's Lunar New Year celebrations, said Tran Huu Thong, director of the Thu Duc detention center, where Glitter is being held. Vietnam traditionally reduces the terms of inmates with good prison records at that time of year.
If his sentence is reduced, Glitter could be released as early as May.
Glitter, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, was convicted in March 2006 of committing "obscene acts with children." The incidents involved two girls, ages 10 and 11, from the southern coastal city of Vung Tau.
Under Vietnamese law, prisoners can be nominated for early release if they have behaved well and their fellow inmates recommend it. Nearly everyone in the jail voted for Glitter's early release, Thong said, and nearly all the prisoners recommended for early release receive it.
"He meets all the criteria," Thong said of Glitter, whose crowd-pleasing anthem "Rock and Roll (Part 2)" is still played at sporting events.
Glitter was arrested in November 2005 in Vung Tau, where he had been living for about six months.
He was convicted in Britain in 1999 of possessing child pornography, and served half of a four-month jail term.
He later went to Cambodia but was expelled from that country in 2002. Cambodian officials didn't specify a crime or file charges against him.

sweetness · January 15th, 2007, 01:45 PM

Well, if they're not gonna shoot him they need to keep him locked up and throw away the key. People that do this kinda shit never stop.....

karistiona · January 15th, 2007, 01:45 PM

Ugh it's shocking that he'll be allowed out early. Just disgusting.

cheray · January 15th, 2007, 07:31 PM

Of course hes behaving. There are no little kids in the jail.

Honey · January 21st, 2008, 03:59 AM

OOpps

Honey · January 21st, 2008, 04:01 AM

Gary Glitter has suffered a heart attack in the Vietnamese prison where he is serving three years for child abuse.

Officials are deciding whether to send the disgraced pop star back to Britain on grounds of ill health.
Glitter, who was jailed in 2006 for abusing girls aged 11 and 12, was taken to casualty after he collapsed in his jail dormitory.
Yesterday, the 63-year- old was under police guard at the hospital in Phan Thiet, a coastal town in the country's south. Scroll down for more...

Glitter walks the grounds of a hospital in Vietnam where he is recovering following a heart attack

Doctors say he is at risk of a second heart attack and is too ill to return to prison in the nearby resort of Thu Duc.
British embassy officials have visited Glitter in hospital and held talks with prison chiefs to discuss the next step.
A prison source said there were three options - make him serve out his sentence and risk having him die in custody, send him home to serve it in Britain, or release him unconditionally in Vietnam's annual lunar new year amnesty in February.
"The decision will be taken at the very highest level because what happens to Mr Glitter reflects on Vietnam", he said.
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Paedophile Glitter appears frail in the grounds of Benh Vien hospital

Officials in the capital, Hanoi, have ordered that he serve out his full term, less a threemonth reduction in sentence granted last year, meaning he would go free in August.
Glitter - real name Paul Gadd - was put on tablets for high blood pressure last year and told to stop buying beer from the prison canteen.
He has been exempted from hard labour because of his age and shares a cell with 18 foreign inmates, most of them Asian.
Prison staff say Glitter has become increasingly isolated and depressed and is visited only by his lawyer. His health is said to have deteriorated sharply over Christmas and the New Year. Scroll down for more...

Gary Glitter appears in court in Vietnam in 2006. He could be released early and allowed to return to Britain

The former singer faces immediate deportation when he is released.
If he returns to Britain he could face further charges under the Sex Offences Act 2003 which covers "sex tourism" abroad. Glitter left the UK after serving a fourmonth jail sentence imposed in November 1999 for possessing 4,000 photographs of children being abused. He was also put on the sex offenders' register.

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Chilly Willy · January 21st, 2008, 04:06 AM

You get a four months jail term for possessing child pornography in Britain? Or do only celebs get off that easily?

sharon_b · January 21st, 2008, 04:43 AM

NOOO!!!...keep him over there. We don't want him

Sarzy · January 21st, 2008, 05:34 AM

'doctors say he is at risk of a second heart attack'. PLEASE god!

buttmunch · January 21st, 2008, 06:37 AM

Let him come to the UK and then put him in a cell with a couple of known psychos.

sweetness · January 21st, 2008, 07:01 AM

Glitter - real name Paul Gadd - was put on tablets for high blood pressure last year and told to stop buying beer from the prison canteen.

Waaait a minute..... this asshole's allowed to have beer in prison? WTF?

Sounds like he's got it real rough over there. Damn baby f*cker.

celeb_2006 · January 21st, 2008, 07:21 AM

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Originally Posted by sweetness

Glitter - real name Paul Gadd - was put on tablets for high blood pressure last year and told to stop buying beer from the prison canteen.

Waaait a minute..... this asshole's allowed to have beer in prison? WTF?

Sounds like he's got it real rough over there. Damn baby f*cker.

Ya you figured jail conditions were quite harsh overseas. Guess not.