Former pop star Gary Glitter has pleaded not guilty to eight allegations of sexual abuse against a girl in the UK when she was aged between eight and 11.<\/p>\n
Glitter (82), whose real name is Paul Gadd, is accused of offences against the girl between 1978 and 1981, after allegedly giving her chocolate and inviting her to his home in Kensington and Chelsea, west London.<\/p>\n
It is said he caused the girl to touch his genitals and \u201cengaged in unlawful sexual intercourse\u201d with her.<\/p>\n
At Southwark Crown Court in London on Wednesday, Glitter appeared on a videolink from Channings Wood prison to enter his pleas.<\/p>\n
He denies four charges of indecent assault, two counts of indecency with a child, and two charges of sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of 13.<\/p>\n
Judge Tony Baumgartner adjourned the case for a three-week trial starting on November 22nd next year.<\/p>\n
Glitter, who wore a grey hat, brown jacket and blue shirt for the court hearing, occasionally sipping from an orange drink, was accompanied by a lawyer at the prison.<\/p>\n
He replied \u201cabsolutely not guilty\u201d to two of the eight charges, and repeated \u201cnot guilty\u201d to the remaining six.<\/p>\n
According to the charges, Glitter is accused of at least 20 incidents of sexual abuse against the girl.<\/p>\n
The Metropolitan Police previously said the allegations were first reported to the force on January 9th last year and Glitter was interviewed on July 22nd, 2025, in relation to the investigation.<\/p>\n
Glitter was one of the biggest stars of his time, selling 18 million records in five years in the early 1970s. He enjoyed transatlantic success with a string of hits including Rock And Roll (Parts One And Two), I\u2019m The Leader Of The Gang (I Am), and Do You Wanna Touch Me.<\/p>\n
The glam era was short and, despite a series of comebacks, his final UK top 40 hit was in 1984 with Another Rock And Roll Christmas.<\/p>\n
Glitter, who sat with his arms folded throughout the court hearing, was remanded into custody by the judge until his trial. \u2013 PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former pop star Gary Glitter has pleaded not guilty to eight allegations of sexual abuse against a girl…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,259695,61,60,127936],"class_list":["post-612850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gary-glitter-court-case","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-pa2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}