Monitoring Desk
ISLAMABAD/LONDON: Gary Glitter, a disgraced former English glam rock singer and pop star, was released after completing half of his 16-year jail term.
Glitter was given a sentence in 2015 for having sexual relations with a girl under 13 and four charges of attempted rape. He was a prominent musical figure in the 1970s.
Pop Star Released from jail
Gadd was at the height of fame when he assaulted two girls, ages 12 and 13, after inviting them backstage to his dressing room. His youngest victim was less than ten years old when he snuck into her bed and attempted to rape her in 1975.
Gadd had been detained at Portland, Dorset’s HMP The Verne, a category C low-security prison. He was automatically released halfway through his sentence because he was given a fixed-term sentence.
According to a spokesperson for the UK Ministry of Justice, probation officers and police officers “closely monitor” and “face some of the strictest license conditions” sex offenders like Paul Gadd. The offender may be sent back to prison if they violate these rules at any time.
Gadd’s name will not be added to the sex offenders’ register for these acts because they occurred before the registry was formed. However, when he returned to the UK after being convicted guilty of sexually abusing two young girls in Vietnam in 2006, he was already compelled to sign the register for
life.
Judge Alistair McCreath stated that he could find “no meaningful evidence that” Gadd had atoned for his misdeeds at the time of sentencing in 2015. It is difficult to emphasize the depravity of this horrible behavior, he said, calling Gadd’s assault of a girl under the age of 10 “appalling.”
He continued by stating that you caused them all actual and permanent harm and did it for no other reason than to hurt them and obtain sexual gratification for yourself of a wholly wrong kind.
Despite Gadd’s denials, he was convicted guilty after a three-week trial.
Sex offenders are subject to conditions such as meeting with a probation officer, to whom they must report if they change their name. Some offenders may be subject to more stringent requirements for approval before traveling abroad.
Having to give police personal information, such as an updated address every year or if details change. Additionally, they may be prohibited from unsupervised contact with children and subject to internet usage limitations. They could be sent straight to jail if they violate the rules.
The allegations that led to Gadd’s imprisonment became public when he was detained as the first person under Operation Yewtree, the investigation launched by the Met in 2012 in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal.
