25 February 2024 , 07:26
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Gary Glitter faces losing his remaining £6million fortune to his abuse victims, leaving him to die broke behind bars.
The 79-year-old paedophile is already being sued by one victim he attacked when she was just 12 for hundreds of thousands of pounds. And a legal source says the disgraced singer could face more High Court claims in the future.
Glitter was jailed for 16 years in 2015 for abusing three girls in the 1970s and 80s. He was released last year but soon recalled for breaching his licensing conditions.
The shamed ex-pop star – real name Paul Gadd – will now remain in jail until 2031 after the Parole Board last month blocked a bid for freedom, saying he still poses a serious risk to children. If the serial sex offender serves his time in full, he would be 86 when released – if he lives that long.
It is understood lawyers and investigators are valuing Glitter’s fortune. He owns a multimillion-pound penthouse near London’s Regent’s Park, and reportedly has a large pension as well as possessions worth a “significant” amount.
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Gadd's mugshot (PA)
The singer in the early 90s (Mirrorpix)A legal source said: “Glitter is a serial sex offender. There are three victims who all took part in the legal process through his trial. And he has offended people abroad. There are feared to be more as well. His wealth and fortune, which is still vast despite everything, is being looked at. He will be worried he will lose it all.”
The paedophile was released last February from HMP The Verne in Dorset after serving half his sentence. But he was recalled to prison weeks later after accessing the dark web from his bail hostel.
The source added: “It was not a good look for the justice system in Britain to see him released under the cover of darkness and then exposed through the media just weeks later with disturbing behaviour to see him recalled. He has shown absolutely no remorse or even acknowledged his offending at all.”
Lawyer Richard Scorer, who represents the victim taking legal action, said: “Our client feels very relieved that Gadd remains in prison. In her view he should never have been released in the first place. His conduct in the damages claim, where he has refused to engage with the court at all and has repeatedly ignored court orders, demonstrates that he has no remorse.”
The Parole Board panel found Glitter continued to show a “lack of victim empathy”. Its summary said: “It found on the evidence that at the time of the offending, and while he was on licence, Mr Gadd had a sexual interest in underage girls.” It also said he had not taken part in any prison programmes to address his offending and denied having any sexual interest in children.
Former Met detective Peter Bleksley said: “I hope his victims take every penny.”