Gary Glitter pays off mortgage on £2million penthouse while still behind bars
Notorious paedophile pop star Gary Glitter has managed to pay off his mortgage from behind bars for his horrific child abuse offences.
Documents have shown the debt on his £2million London penthouse has now been cleared, 26 years after he was arrested. It has been reported that while imprisoned at HMP The Verne in Dorset, Glitter bragged to inmates about his enormous wealth.
The disgraced former singer, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was automatically released from HMP The Verne in February after serving half of his 16-year fixed-term determinate sentence. But less than six weeks after walking free, he was hauled back behind bars for breaching his licence conditions by allegedly viewing downloaded images of children.
Gary Glitter in concert in December 1992 (EXPRESS NEWSPAPERS)
Metropolitan Police handout photo of paedophile glam rock singer Gary Glitter (PA)He initially took out a NatWest mortgage 30 years ago to fund his central London apartment - where he was arrested in 2012 for historic sex crimes - and new paperwork has shown the loan was cleared last week, according to the Sun.
The news comes as the 79-year-old will face a parole hearing in the coming weeks. He is due to be considered for release in January after he was jailed in 2015 for sexually abusing three girls between 1975 and 1980. Now that his mortgage is cleared, he could go back and live at the top-floor penthouse near Regent’s Park or sell up to fund a new lavish lifestyle when released.
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The singer was found guilty of one count of attempted rape, four counts of indecent assault and one count of sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of 13. He attacked two girls, aged 12 and 13, after inviting them backstage to his dressing room and isolating them from their mothers. His third victim was less than 10 years old when he crept into her bed and tried to rape her in 1975.
He was not added to the sex offenders register for these crimes because they were committed before the register was introduced. But he was already ordered to sign the register for life when he returned to the UK after he was found guilty of sexually abusing two young girls in Vietnam in 2006.
Glitter had three UK number ones but his fall from grace began decades later in 1999 after he admitted possessing thousands of images that showed child sex abuse and was jailed for four months. Upon being freed he went abroad and in 2002 was expelled from Cambodia amid sex crime allegations. He was later convicted of sexually abusing two young girls in neighbouring Vietnam in March 2006 and spent two-and-a-half years in jail. He returned to the UK in 2008 and then was arrested in 2012 following an investigation by detectives, before the case that led to his latest conviction came to trial in January 2015.
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