![]() ![]() Glitter was the number one target of Operation Yewtree, the celebrity sex crime squad set up by Scotland Yard after Jimmy Savile was exposed. Judge McCreath said the singer had never admitted what he did was wrong. The court heard Glitter saw a therapist in 2011 after which his travel ban was relaxed. The former rock star was jailed for four months in 1999 for possessing indecent images of children and sentenced to three years in Vietnam in 2006 for sexually assaulting two girls aged 10 and 11. ![]() He was also found guilty of two counts of indecently assaulting the 12-year-old and two counts of indecently assaulting the 13-year-old. Glitter, of Marylebone, central London, was found guilty of the attempted rape of the eight-year-old and unlawful sexual intercourse with the 12-year-old. Judge McCreath told him: “She was an extremely vulnerable child for reasons of which I accept you knew nothing. Two years later, he groped a 13-year-old girl as she sat on his lap in his dressing room after a Watford concert. The judge said: “You gave no thought to the harm you were doing her.” The singer, then in his 30s, sexually assaulted her before having full sexual intercourse. In a new documentary titled Gary Glitter: A Faking It, which airs on discovery+ Saturday, UK experts analyse TV footage filmed across Glitters career to reveal the tell-tale signs of guilt. He invited them both to his hotel, then lured the 12-yearold into his bedroom. Glitter’s next victim was a fan whose mother had taken her to see him in concert at Leicester in 1977. Judge McCreath told him: “You did that child deep harm which has persisted throughout her life.” About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. The next morning, he acted as if nothing had happened. And ultimately they can be recalled to prison if they breach their conditions.Glitter’s youngest victim was a guest at his country house when he tried to rape her in 1975. They also face restrictions on travelling abroad, which is particularly relevant in Glitter’s case where there is a history of offending overseas. Other licence conditions for sexual offenders can include curfews, residing at approved premises, bans on unsupervised contact with children, and restrictions on internet usage. The MoJ can do little except reassure the public that Glitter will be “closely monitored by the police and Probation Service, and face some of the strictest licence conditions including being fitted with a GPS tag”. Raab has been quick to raise concerns and challenge Parole Board decisions relating to violent offenders, so if he could do something to prevent or at least challenge Glitter’s release he would probably have done so. ![]() The Ministry of Justice and the Probation Service policy framework specifically lists as an inappropriate reason to use the power “undue pressure to submit cases due to their notoriety or dissatisfaction with the original sentence handed down”. There is a test for the level of danger and a public interest test, with the justice secretary being required to believe on reasonable grounds that the released prisoner would pose a significant risk to members of the public of serious harm occasioned by the commission of specified offences. Under the PCSC, the justice secretary does have a power to detain dangerous prisoners serving a standard determinate sentence but the bar for exercising it is set extremely high. Under the Criminal Justice Act 2003, the justice secretary, currently Dominic Raab, has a duty to automatically release certain fixed-term prisoners when they have completed the requisite custodial period. However, like the majority of new laws, they do not apply retrospectively and nothing could be done to extend the time Glitter was required to spend in jail. If Glitter had been convicted under these rules, the length of the former singer’s sentence means he would have had to serve two-thirds of the term rather than half. It is why the government changed the law in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts (PCSC) Act 2022, which changes the automatic release point for adult offenders serving sentences of four years or more for serious violent or sexual offences. ![]()
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