The disgraced singer was released on parole after serving eight years of his 16-year sentence last month. A Ministry of Justice spokesperson stated at the time that his license conditions were “among the strictest.”
Gary Glitter is being recalled to prison for violating the terms of his release.
After serving half of his 16-year sentence for sexually assaulting three schoolgirls, the 78-year-old was released on probation last month.
A spokesperson for the Probation Service stated, “Protecting the public is our top priority.”
Therefore, we impose stringent parole conditions, and when offenders violate them, we immediately return them to custody.
Paul Gadd, better known as Glitter, had a string of successes in the 1970s. In 2015, he was convicted and sentenced to prison for the historical sex assaults.
After summoning two 12- and 13-year-old girls to his dressing room and isolating them from their mothers, he assaulted them.
The artist molesting his third victim, a girl under 10, in 1975.
The allegations came to light when he was the first person arrested under Operation Yewtree, the Metropolitan Police investigation initiated in response to the Jimmy Savile scandal.
Upon his release in February, a Ministry of Justice spokesperson stated that the police and Probation Service “closely monitor” offenders like Glitter.
“[They] are subject to some of the strictest license requirements, also the installation of a GPS tag,” the spokesperson explained.
“If the offender violates these conditions at any time, they are subject to incarceration.”
We have already implemented harsher sentences for the worst offenders and eliminated automatic parole for severe offenses.
Also a group of protestors is believed to have congregated outside the bail hostel where Glitter was placed the day after his release from HMP The Verne, a low-security category C prison in Portland, Dorset.
They demanded that he be removed from the hostel, which is located in a residential neighborhood, with one man attempting to scale the fence.
At the time, a Hampshire police spokesperson stated that no arrests had been made and the situation had been resolved.
Richard Scorer, the director of the abuse law team at Slater and Gordon, who represents one of Glitter’s victims, stated that his release was “particularly distressing and traumatic” for those he assaulted.
