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VARIOUS: Disgraced British rock star Gary Glitter charged with committing obscene acts with two girls aged ten and eleven
VARIOUS: Disgraced British rock star Gary Glitter charged with committing obscene acts with two girls aged ten and eleven
Gary Glitter will not face a firing squad in Vietnam after prosecutors confirmed on Friday (January 6) that he would not be charged with raping children. But the disgraced British rock star could still be jailed for up to seven years after he was charged with committing obscene acts with two girls aged 10 and 11. The 61-year-old, real name Paul Gadd, was arrested as he tried to flee the country in November amid allegations over relationships with two girls. The girls reportedly told police they had sex with the former glam rocker at his seaside home in Vung Tau. But police investigators said there was not enough evidence to press a child rape charge - which carries a maximum penalty of death by firing squad. Glitter was sentenced to four months in jail in Britain in 1999 after being found guilty of storing more than 4,000 images of child pornography on his computer. After his release he left Britain for Cuba and then later turned up in Phnom Penh. Child rights activists hounded him out of Cambodia twice and had his name put on an entry blacklist, although Glitter filed lawsuits last year fighting the deportation orders. Vietnamese newspapers have reported Glitter had been in Vietnam for about a year.
ITN Source | January 12, 2006
