Pop paedo Gary Glitter faces fresh legal action as victims seek compensation
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Gary Glitter faces being slapped with legal action that could force him to pay his youngest victims at least £100,000 in compensation for his horrific abuse.
Irish Columban priest and child sex abuse campaigner Father Shay Cullen, is now in touch with UK law firms to build a case that could see the rocker dragged back into court after he was released early from jail.
He wants the rocker’s accounts forensically examined to force him to use some of his huge rock royalties to pay £50,000 to the two girls he molested in Vietnam when they were aged only 10 and 11.
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Shay also warned Glitter should never have been released and will always be a danger to kids.
He told us in an exclusive interview from his base in the Philippines: “Most paedophiles cannot control their sexual urges and frequently abuse children again.
“He got released early served only half of his sentence and should be closely monitored with a tag.
“He should not be released as he is prone to abuse again and since he is a serial child abuser he should serve his full sentence.”
Glitter – real name Paul Gadd – was released at the start of February from HMP The Verne in Portland, Dorset, after serving only half a 16-year sentence for sex offences.
He is now holed up at a bail hostel where he is being offered baking lessons alongside other ex-cons before he is released back into the community under strict terms that may include him being fitted with a GPS tag.
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His crimes have stretched from 1975 to 1980, and included sex with a girl under 13, attempting to rape an eight-year-old, and repeatedly molesting a third girl.
Dublin-born Father Shay, who doesn’t like titles and likes to be called Shay, is campaigning for payments for two women, Diem and Nguyen.
Glitter molested Diem – which is not her real name – when she was only 10, while Nguyen was 11 when abused by the singer.
Diem wants lawyers to drag Glitter into the High Court to face a compensation claim, while Nguyen also wants to join the action.
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Shay thinks they should be paid at least £50,000 each and wants Glitter’s financial arrangements trawled for ways to pay them as he is convinced he is hiding money in secret accounts.
He said: “Diem and Nguyen should get no less than £50,000 each – a small compensation for the suffering they have endured at the hands of Glitter.
“A good lawyer will be able to get court orders to get to his accounts so he can pay the compensation and there should be publicity demanding that he pay from his secret accounts.”
Shay added Diem is so traumatised she has never been able to marry and lives in poverty.
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He has spent the past 50 years in the Philippines trying to wipe out the child sex abuse and trafficking industries through the People’s Recovery, Empowerment Development Assistance (PREDA) foundation he co-founded, which runs homes treating victims for the damage inflicted on them by mainly male abusers from the West.
Diem, who now works as a hairdresser in the Mekong Delta, said: “I still have nightmares about what he did to me and I’ve never been able to have a boyfriend because of what happened.
“I am too frightened to get close to anyone.”
Nguyen said: “Everyone asks me about what Gary Glitter did to me. I want him to pay compensation because he has destroyed my life.
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“I still see him in nightmares. I can never forget what happened. I will carry it with me for the rest of my life.”
Glitter was first caged in 1999 for four months for possessing 4,000 indecent images of children.
In 2006, he was jailed for three years in Vietnam for attacks there after a judge branded him an “abnormal” sicko.
The disgraced glam rocker was released in 2008, and as he was being held in a Vietnamese cell he reportedly transferred ownership of his company to Shoreview – in a deal thought to have been designed to disguise its profits and shield them from the UK’s tax rates.
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Glitter’s fortune has also been boosted in the past from a seven-figure sale of rights to his hits months before he was arrested on child pornography offences in 1997.
The singer, whose hits such as Rock ’N’ Roll (Part 2) have earned him millions, still owns a flat in London worth around £2million, so could base himself there once he leaves his halfway house.
He was sentenced at Southwark crown court in 2015 for “depraved and dreadful crimes” against fans.
Judge Alistair McCreath said he wished he could have jailed the pervert for longer but was constrained by sentencing guidelines for offences in the 1970s that put him on the determinate sentence that means he was freed earlier this month.
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