{"id":775778,"date":"2026-07-03T05:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/775778\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T05:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:02:14","slug":"gary-glitter-charged-with-historical-child-sex-offences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/775778\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Glitter charged with historical child sex offences"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former UK pop star Gary Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, has been charged with historical sexual assault charges.<\/p>\n

British prosecutors charged Gadd with unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl aged under 13 and three counts of indecent assault on a girl aged under 14 on Thursday, local time.<\/p>\n

The charges were linked to alleged sexual offences against a child dating back to 1978, the Crown Prosecution Service said in a statement<\/p>\n

“This follows allegations made by a woman relating to a period of alleged abuse that took place between 1978 and 1981,” Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor Bethan David said.<\/p>\n

The 82-year-old shot to fame in the 70s as a glam-rock star before he was later repeatedly convicted and jailed for child sex crimes.<\/p>\n

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Paul Gadd has a long history of sexual offences, dating back to a 1999 child pornography conviction. (Reuters:\u00a0Andrew Winning)<\/p>\n

Gadd is serving a 16-year prison sentence imposed in 2015 after he was convicted of sexually abusing three schoolgirls between 1975 and 1980.<\/p>\n

He was released on licence in 2023 but recalled to prison weeks later for breaching licence conditions.<\/p>\n

He was first jailed in 1999 for possession of child pornography and later moved to Cambodia, but was deported in 2002 due to suspected sex offences.<\/p>\n

In 2006, a Vietnamese court convicted him of committing obscene acts with two girls aged 10 and 11 and sentenced him to four years in jail.<\/p>\n

On his release he returned to Britain.<\/p>\n

Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former UK pop star Gary Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, has been charged with historical sexual…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134,367967,367968,74809,5429],"class_list":["post-775778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-gary-glitter","tag-paul-gadd","tag-sexual-assault-charges","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}