Pedophile singer Gary Glitter freed from prison after serving half sentence

Singer Gary Glitter was freed from a prison in southwest England Friday after serving an eight-year prison sentence for attempted rape, indecent assault and sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of 13.

The 79-year-old glam-rock star was convicted in 2015 for crimes against three girls in the 1970s. His victims were 10, 12 and 13 years old. He served half his 16-year sentence and will be “closely monitored by the police and Probation Service” the U.K.s Ministry of Justice said.

Glitter, born Paul Gadd, is best known in the U.S. for the stadium anthem “Rock & Roll Part 2,” which was featured in the 2019 film “Joker.” He had several hits overseas.

In 1999, Glitter was sentenced to four months in a British prison for downloading child pornography. After serving his time, the disgraced musician fled the country, spending time in Spain, Cuba, Cambodia and Vietnam, from which he was deported after serving a nearly three year sentence for 2005 sex crimes involving two young girls. Glitter maintains he did nothing wrong.

“He looked like a father figure — I didn’t expect that he would do these things, these terrible things,” one of his Vietnamese victims told the BBC in 2015. “Please do something so he doesn’t commit these crimes again,”

His victims in Vietnam were 11 and 12 years old.

With News Wire Services