Paedophile former pop star, Gary Glitter, recalled to prison

Gary Glitter has been recalled to prison just weeks after being released.

The disgraced former pop star was freed in February after serving half of his 16-year jail term for sexually abusing three schoolgirls.

The 79-year-old breached his licence conditions, the Probation Service said.

Upon release, Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was subject to conditions including having a GPS tag.

He was jailed in 2015 for attempted rape, four counts of indecent assault and one of having sex with a girl under 13. A Probation Service spokesperson said protecting the public was their "number one priority", adding: "That's why we set tough licence conditions and when offenders breach them, we don't hesitate to return them to custody."

Glitter, one of the biggest music stars of the 1970s, had been held at HMP The Verne, a low-security category C jail in Portland, Dorset.

When he was released he was also subject to close monitoring by the police and probation officers, with the Ministry of Justice saying at the time sex offenders "face some of the strictest licence conditions".

Glitter was not added to the sex offenders' register for these crimes, because they were committed before the registry was introduced. But, he was already ordered to sign it when he returned to the UK after being convicted of sexually abusing two young girls in Vietnam in 2006.

The allegations that led to Glitter's imprisonment came to light when he became the first person to be arrested under Operation Yewtree - the investigation launched by the Met in 2012 in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal.

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