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Gary Glitter child sex abuse trial jury begin deliberations | |
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The jury trying former glam rock singer Gary Glitter on historic child sex abuse charges has retired to consider its verdicts. | The jury trying former glam rock singer Gary Glitter on historic child sex abuse charges has retired to consider its verdicts. |
Mr Glitter, 70, whose real name is Paul Gadd, denies one count of attempted rape, seven counts of indecent assault and two other sexual offences. | |
The alleged offences are said to have taken place between 1975 and 1980. | The alleged offences are said to have taken place between 1975 and 1980. |
The jury was told not to use Mr Gadd's previous child pornography convictions against him. | |
'Sense of revulsion' | |
After the two-week trial, the jury of seven women and five men at Southwark Crown Court in south London were reminded to keep in mind all of the evidence before them. | |
Referring to Mr Gadd's 1999 child pornography convictions, Judge Alistair McCreath said: "Don't let your natural sense of revulsion about such material allow you to use it against Mr Gadd in a way that is prejudicial or unfair." | |
One woman claims she was under the age of 10 when the then-singer tried to rape her in 1975. | |
Mr Gadd, of Marylebone, central London, is also accused of inviting a 12-year-old girl into his hotel suite and plying her with champagne before having sex with her. | |
Another woman claims he invited her into his dressing room at a nightclub in Watford when she was 13 and forcefully kissed her and slid his hand up her skirt between October 1979 and December 1980. | |
Mr Gadd was the first person to be arrested as part of Operation Yewtree. | Mr Gadd was the first person to be arrested as part of Operation Yewtree. |