Gary Glitter boards London flight

Paedophile and disgraced ex-pop star Gary Glitter has left Bangkok and is on a flight bound for London.

Glitter, who was jailed in Vietnam for child abuse, was denied entry to Hong Kong and twice to Thailand this week, after he refused to return to London.

He spent three years in jail for sexually abusing two Vietnamese girls.

Glitter, 64, whose real name is Paul Gadd, sold millions of records as a glam rock star in the 1970s, with hits including I'm The Leader Of The Gang.

He also has a conviction in the UK, having been jailed for four months in 1999 for possessing images of child abuse.

He is expected to arrive shortly after 0700 BST on Friday.

Earlier in the week Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said it was her view that Glitter should be given a Foreign Travel Order, banning him from overseas travel.

Glitter has reportedly been attempting to avoid returning to the UK since he was deported from Vietnam on Tuesday. The Thai authorities said they told him no other country would take him.

When the flight from Ho Chi Minh City stopped in Bangkok he refused to take the connecting flight to the UK. He made a plea for medical treatment after saying he was suffering a heart attack.

– BBC News 2008-08-21, last updated at 19:32 GMT
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7573812.stm

Paedophile Glitter arrives in UK

Paedophile and former pop singer Gary Glitter has arrived back in the UK after serving three years in a Vietnamese jail for abusing two girls.

Glitter was denied entry to Hong Kong and twice to Thailand this week, after he refused to return to Britain.

His Thai Airways flight landed at Heathrow Airport at 0710 BST, where he was met by police.

He is expected to appear at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court in west London to sign the sex offenders register.
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With the arrival of Gary Glitter in the UK (see above post) further news reports about him are unlikely to be related to Thailand and therefore will not be added to this thread. Anybody interested in such news can find it easily on the Internet.
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One more interesting Thailand-related news item
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Glitter flees after dodging court
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Glitter’s four-day “world tour” began when he was deported from Vietnam on Tuesday after nearly three years in jail for sex offences against girls of ten and 11.

He agreed to fly home, but caused chaos at a stop-over in Bangkok, Thailand, by refusing to board a London-bound plane.

The Thai authorities were powerless to kick him out as Vietnam had not issued them with the deportation paperwork.

But they remedied this by tricking gloating Glitter into leaving for Hong Kong — and then got the former colony to furnish them with the correct documents.

The brute — real name Paul Gadd — was then sent back to Thailand. He had hoped to bounce from country to country until one would finally let him in.

But Thai authorities used his attempted escape to Hong Kong to deport him to Britain.

A source said: “We’re delighted that we have caught him out. Glitter was so pleased when the Thai authorities allowed him to fly to Hong Kong. But it was a trap and he fell for it.

“He was given the papers as soon as he touched down. His face fell like a ton of bricks.

“Glitter even rang a friend on the flight to Hong Kong — telling them to pick him up because he had outwitted us all.”

– The Sun 2008-08-22
www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1592987.ece