Gary Glitter will keep in jail after the Parole Board refused the disgraced singer’s bid to be launched.
Glitter, 81, was recalled to jail lower than six weeks after he was launched midway by his 16-year sentence in 2023 for breaching his licence situations by allegedly viewing downloaded photographs of youngsters.
He was sentenced to 16 years imprisonment in 2015 after being discovered responsible of sexually assaulting three schoolgirls between 1975 and 1980.
The Parole Board final yr stated it was “not satisfied that release at this point would be safe for the protection of the public” after a listening to held behind closed doorways.
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Glitter was jailed in 2015 Pic: PA
A spokesman on Tuesday stated his launch was refused once more following a “paper review”.
“Parole Board decisions are solely focused on what risk a prisoner could represent to the public if released and whether that risk is manageable in the community,” an announcement stated.
“A panel will fastidiously study an enormous vary of proof, together with particulars of the unique crime, and any proof of behaviour change, in addition to discover the hurt completed and influence the crime has had on the victims.
“Parole reviews are undertaken thoroughly and with extreme care. Protecting the public is our number one priority.”
Glitter, whose actual title is Paul Gadd, shall be eligible for an extra evaluate at a date set by the Ministry of Justice. His sentence expires in February 2031.
He was made bankrupt earlier this yr after failing to pay greater than £500,000 in damages to a girl who sued him for abusing her when she was 12 years previous.
He added: “My client is relieved at this ruling but apprehensive about having to go through the merry-go-round of Gadd coming up for parole again, and the fear of him being let out on licence.
“That is unfair on victims and it will be higher in the event that they had been assured that he would serve the remainder of his sentence.”
Glitter was first jailed for 4 months in 1999 after he admitted possessing round 4,000 indecent photographs of youngsters.
He was expelled from Cambodia in 2002, and in March 2006 was convicted of sexually abusing two women, aged 10 and 11, in Vietnam, the place he spent two-and-a-half years in jail.
Glitter was routinely launched from HMP The Verne, a low-security jail in Portland, Dorset, in February 2023 after serving half of his fixed-term determinate sentence.
However he was again behind bars weeks later after reportedly making an attempt to entry the darkish internet and pictures of youngsters.
