Disgraced popstar Gary Glitter will bid for freedom on Wednesday as his case might be heard by the parole board.
A call might be made on whether or not the 79-year-old is allowed to be launched from jail. That’s regardless of being accused of displaying a “complete lack of regret” in direction of his victims by attorneys representing a lady who he abused when she was 12 years outdated and is now suing him.
Glitter, whose actual identify is Paul Gadd, was jailed for 16 years in 2015 for abusing three schoolgirls between 1975 and 1980. His sentence expires in February 2031. He was mechanically launched from HMP The Verne, a low-security jail in Portland, Dorset, in February final yr after serving half of his 16-year fixed-term determinate sentence.
However he was despatched again inside after lower than six weeks. He allegedly breached his licence circumstances by viewing downloaded photographs of kids.
Parole judges evaluation the instances of criminals who’re recalled to jail to determine whether or not they need to be re-released or keep behind bars for the remainder of their sentence. Parole Board selections are often made public 14 days after the proceedings, so long as there are not any adjournments within the case.
In October a request for Glitter’s parole listening to to happen in public was rejected on the grounds that it was too troublesome to contact all his victims. Glitter’s fall from grace started within the late Nineties when he was jailed for possessing 1000’s of kid abuse photographs.
In 2002 he was expelled from Cambodia amid studies of intercourse crime allegations, and in March 2006 he was convicted of sexually abusing two women, aged 10 and 11, in Vietnam, and spent two and a half years in jail. The offences for which he was jailed in 2015 got here to mild as a part of Operation Yewtree, the Metropolitan Police investigation launched within the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal.