Gary Glitter

70s Fun-

Glitter was arrested in 1997 and convicted and imprisoned in 1999 for downloading thousands of child pornography images and videos.[8] He was acquitted of a charge of sexual activity with an underage girl in the 1970s. He later faced criminal charges and deportation from several countries in connection with both actual and suspected child sexual abuse. He was deported from Cambodia on suspected child sexual abuse charges in 2002 and settled in Vietnam, where a court found him guilty of obscene acts with minors in 2006.[9] After serving his sentence, he was deported to the UK and was placed on the Sex Offenders' Register for life. After the Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal, Glitter was arrested again in 2012, as part of Operation Yewtree.[10] He was released on bail, and was charged in 2014 with historical child sex offences. In 2015, he was found guilty of one count of attempted rape, one count of unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl under 13, and four counts of indecent assault;[11][12] he was sentenced to 16 years in prison.[13] He was released on licence in February 2023 after serving half of his sentence in prison,[14] but recalled to prison in March of the same year after breaching the conditions of his licence.[15] His parole bid was denied in February 2024.[16] BBC News described Glitter's fall from grace as "dramatic" and "spectacular".[17] In 2015, Glitter was described by music journalist Alexis Petridis as a "public hate figure".[18] Episodes of the music show Top of the Pops featuring his performances are no longer repeated.

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