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5th February 2015, 16:19
Gary Glitter found guilty of child sex offences (http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/feb/05/gary-glitter-guilty-child-sex-offences)
By Karen McVeigh, Friday 6 February 2015
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Gary Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, arrives at Southwark crown court
Singer convicted of string of offences in 1970s and 1980s, including attempted rape of an eight-year-old child
Former Glam rock star Gary Glitter faces spending the remainder of his life in prison after being found guilty of child sex offences on young girls.
A jury of five men and seven women on Thursday convicted the flamboyant singer, now 70, of offences committed in the 1970s and 1980s including the attempted rape of an eight-year-old child.
Glitter was found guilty of one count of attempted rape, four counts of indecent assault, and one count of sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of 13.
Glitter raised his eyebrows and looked shocked in the dock as the verdicts were read. He blew kisses to a public gallery full of reporters as he was remanded in custody and led down to the cells.
Judge Alistair McCreath told him: “In light of verdicts, I am remanding him in custody.”
His predatory sexual offences against his child victims, including fans that helped propel him to stardom, went unpunished for 40 years because of the “immunity of fame”, the prosecution said during the trial.
However, that vanished after the singer’s fall from grace when the father of three, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was found to have a “voracious” appetite for child abuse images. He was convicted in 1999 of building up a library of 4,000 such images, some involving children as young as two.
Later, in 2012, he was arrested as part of the Operation Yewtree investigation, set up in the wake of the Jimmy Savile child abuse scandal. It was during this period that his victims, now grown women, found the courage to tell the police about the abuse, although they had previously confided in others.
Source (http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/feb/05/gary-glitter-guilty-child-sex-offences)
By Karen McVeigh, Friday 6 February 2015
http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-620/h--/q-95/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/2/5/1423143320588/Gary-Glitter-008.jpg
Gary Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, arrives at Southwark crown court
Singer convicted of string of offences in 1970s and 1980s, including attempted rape of an eight-year-old child
Former Glam rock star Gary Glitter faces spending the remainder of his life in prison after being found guilty of child sex offences on young girls.
A jury of five men and seven women on Thursday convicted the flamboyant singer, now 70, of offences committed in the 1970s and 1980s including the attempted rape of an eight-year-old child.
Glitter was found guilty of one count of attempted rape, four counts of indecent assault, and one count of sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of 13.
Glitter raised his eyebrows and looked shocked in the dock as the verdicts were read. He blew kisses to a public gallery full of reporters as he was remanded in custody and led down to the cells.
Judge Alistair McCreath told him: “In light of verdicts, I am remanding him in custody.”
His predatory sexual offences against his child victims, including fans that helped propel him to stardom, went unpunished for 40 years because of the “immunity of fame”, the prosecution said during the trial.
However, that vanished after the singer’s fall from grace when the father of three, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was found to have a “voracious” appetite for child abuse images. He was convicted in 1999 of building up a library of 4,000 such images, some involving children as young as two.
Later, in 2012, he was arrested as part of the Operation Yewtree investigation, set up in the wake of the Jimmy Savile child abuse scandal. It was during this period that his victims, now grown women, found the courage to tell the police about the abuse, although they had previously confided in others.
Source (http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/feb/05/gary-glitter-guilty-child-sex-offences)