Convicted pedophile Gary Glitter plans to flee to Spain and join love child following prison release
LONDON, ENGLAND: Gary Glitter is reportedly planning to flee to Spain and join his son after being released from prison in the UK. The disgraced glam rocker was released from prison earlier this month, eight years after he was put behind bars for child sex offenses committed against three schoolgirls.
78-year-old Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was moved into a bail hostel in the south of England post his release. However, he reportedly knows "Britain is dangerous for him" and "wants to move as soon as he can." The shamed musician apparently told his love child he will be moving to a place where he can "keep a low profile," an insider has claimed.
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Father-son duo in 'regular contact'
Glitter told his son, 21-year-old Gary Pantoja Sosa, that he will need to "stay out of the way" once he leaves the bail hostel, the source stated while speaking to The Sun. The father-son duo is reportedly in "regular contact" and the 'Rock 'n' Roll' hitmaker may go to Spain to be with his boy. "He’s in touch with him and he could go there," the insider told the newspaper. "He’s told him that’s the plan." Sosa is the son of Glitter and Yudenia Sosa Martinez and was reportedly born in 2001 while the rocker was hiding in Cuba.
This comes just days after the authorities responded to a disturbance at the bail hostel where Glitter is currently holed up. A crowd had gathered outside the property in Hampshire on February 4 after the singer was freed the previous day. Protesters reportedly demanded that he be removed from their neighborhood. One of them even tried to scale the fence of the hostel.
'Habitual sexual predator'
As mentioned, Glitter was jailed in 2015 for sexually abusing three schoolgirls. The 78-year-old reportedly served only half of his 16-year sentence after he was freed halfway through his fixed-term determinate sentence. He is now subject to license conditions after being categorized as a "level 3" offender, meaning he is still considered "dangerous" and "capable of causing serious harm," and requires senior probation staff to monitor him.
At one point, Glitter was one of the UK's biggest glam rock stars of the 1970s and became a regular fixture on the BBC's TV chart show Top of the Pops. His fall from grace began in 1997 when he took a laptop into a Bristol branch of PC World for repair and an engineer stumbled upon child abuse images on his hard drive. The singer was eventually jailed for four months after a total of 4,000 images were found by police in a subsequent investigation. Upon release, Glitter emigrated to Cambodia, from where he was kicked out in 2002 amid claims of sex crimes.
About four years later, Glitter was put behind bars in neighboring Vietnam for molesting two girls, one aged just ten. He managed to escape charges of child rape, which carried a death sentence and returned to the UK in 2008. The rocker was forced to sign the sex offenders' register before he was arrested once again in 2012 at his multi-million-pound home in Westminster. Authorities later described him as a "habitual sexual predator who took advantage of the star status afforded to him."
In 2015, Glitter was convicted of attempted rape, four counts of indecent assault, and one count of engaging in sexual intercourse with a girl under 13 in the 1970s and 1980s. However, fast forward to June 2021, and it emerged that the repeat offender had received the green light for freedom. It's worth noting that Glitter no longer receives any royalties for his music. His song 'Rock and Roll Part 2' featured in the blockbuster 'The Joker' in 2019, but rights holders insisted he wouldn't get any royalties from the movie's success.