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Gary Glitter 'will fly to London' Gary Glitter boards London flight
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Paedophile and disgraced pop star Gary Glitter has agreed to leave Bangkok for London, according to Thai police. Paedophile and disgraced ex-pop star Gary Glitter has left Bangkok and is on a flight bound for London.
Glitter, who served a prison sentence for child abuse, flew to Thailand after refusing to travel to London and being rejected for entry to Hong Kong. Glitter, who was jailed in Vietnam for child abuse, was denied entry to Hong Kong and twice to Thailand this week, after he refused to return to London.
Thai authorities said he would fly to London later. They said he had been told no other country would take him. He spent three years in jail for sexually abusing two Vietnamese girls.
Glitter sold millions of records as a glam rock star in the 1970s, with hits including I'm The Leader Of The Gang. Glitter, 64, whose real name is Paul Gadd, sold millions of records as a glam rock star in the 1970s, with hits including I'm The Leader Of The Gang.
Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was earlier deported from Vietnam after spending almost three years in jail for sexually abusing two girls. He also has a conviction in the UK, having been jailed for four months in 1999 for possessing images of child abuse.
Glitter had flown to Hong Kong from Bangkok after refusing to fly to the UK, and had made a plea for medical treatment after saying he was suffering a heart attack. He is expected to arrive shortly after 0700 BST on Friday.
The singer had earlier boarded a Thai Airways flight to the Chinese territory after the Thai authorities refused him entry and threatened to deport him to Britain. Earlier in the week Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said it was her view that Glitter should be given a Foreign Travel Order, banning him from overseas travel.
Advertisement Glitter has reportedly been attempting to avoid returning to the UK since he was deported from Vietnam on Tuesday. The Thai authorities said they told him no other country would take him.
When the flight from Ho Chi Minh City stopped in Bangkok he refused to take the connecting flight to the UK. He made a plea for medical treatment after saying he was suffering a heart attack.Advertisement
Glitter's journey from prison in Vietnam to Bangkok airport in ThailandGlitter's journey from prison in Vietnam to Bangkok airport in Thailand
Thai police had earlier told the Reuters news agency they would be "deporting him to his home country, England, unconditionally". But the Thai authorities refused him entry and threatened to deport him to Britain.
The BBC's Jonathan Head says 19 countries have already said they would refuse Glitter entry. I think these [new paedophile controls] are sensible and proportional ways of toughening up what is already a very tough system Home Secretary Jacqui Smith class="" href="/1/hi/uk/7563568.stm">Q&A Managing UK sex offenders He then boarded a Thai Airways flight to the Chinese territory of Hong Kong, but was also refused permission to enter there.
Julian Weinberg, a criminal lawyer specialising in dealing with sexual offences, said he did not think Glitter could be forced to return to the UK. On Thursday he returned to Bangkok, and eventually agreed to travel to London after the Thai authorities again said they would deport him.
The BBC's Jonathan Head says 19 countries had said they would refuse Glitter entry. I think these [new paedophile controls] are sensible and proportional ways of toughening up what is already a very tough system Home Secretary Jacqui Smith Q&A Managing UK sex offenders
Julian Weinberg, a criminal lawyer specialising in dealing with sexual offences, said Glitter could not have been forced to return to the UK.
"The problem is that the government is powerless to be able to take steps to force him to come back."The problem is that the government is powerless to be able to take steps to force him to come back.
"Things might have been very different if he was put on a direct flight back from Vietnam to London. "Things might have been very different if he was put on a direct flight back from Vietnam to London."
"But he hasn't been, and that's why we're in the situation that we're in now, and there's not much the government can do about it." When Glitter arrives in Britain he will be met at the airport by police and required to sign the sex offenders register.
If Glitter ever does return to the UK, he will be met at the airport by police and required to sign the sex offenders register.
He will then be subject to monitoring and have to tell the police where he plans to live and if he planned to go abroad. He could also face an order prohibiting him from going near children or using the internet.He will then be subject to monitoring and have to tell the police where he plans to live and if he planned to go abroad. He could also face an order prohibiting him from going near children or using the internet.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said on Tuesday it was her view that Glitter should be given a Foreign Travel Order (FTO) banning him from overseas travel.
Travel bans
Ms Smith has also announced plans to tighten controls on the movements of paedophiles.
Proposed measures include increasing the length of time an FTO can apply from six months to up to five years, and automatically confiscating the passport of anyone subject to an order.
At present, police are only allowed to rely on evidence from the previous six months about the risk an individual poses, but that time period would also be extended under the plans.
"These are sensible and proportional ways of toughening up what is already a very tough system. I think that's what we owe to children in this country and to children abroad," Ms Smith said.
The home secretary's announcement came after children's charity Ecpat UK accused the government of "turning a blind eye" to British sex tourists.
The charity said it was too easy for nationals convicted abroad to stay under the radar of British police upon their return.