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An angry parent marched his six-year-old daughter to the gates of Gary Glitter ’s bail hostel demanding that staff explain why they are protecting a sex offender.
The furious local dad said he is “appalled” that the disgraced pop star is being housed a street away from his family home.
The construction worker, who told reporters his name was David Jones, 46, said hostel staff asked him to leave private property and told him they had called the police after he rang the buzzer at the halfway house.
His visit comes after officers were called to stop vigilantes attempting to scale gates at the hostel on Saturday.
The dad said: “There’s schools all around.
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Gary Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, arriving at Southwark Crown Court in 2015 (Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP/REX/Shutterstock)“I’m just appalled at what’s going on. That’s what my tax pounds are going on? To protect someone like this?
“I would just like someone to explain what’s going on. Explain to my six year old daughter who you’re protecting in there.
“It’s her that needs protecting - not him. It’s our children that need protecting.
“This is totally different to America where you can go on a website and find out who lives in your neighbourhood.
Dad David Jones was left "appalled" by the decision to free Glitter (Reach Commissioned)“Here it doesn’t happen and it’s completely wrong. Why does he have more rights than a six-year-old girl?”
He added: “He’s 78 years old - he should have just died in prison.”
Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, is thought to have been holed up at the site in the south of England since his release from HMP Verne in Portland, Dorset, in the early hours of Friday morning.
He was freed after serving half of his 16-year jail sentence for sexually abusing three schoolgirls.
Glitter was freed after serving half of his 16-year jail sentence for sexually abusing three schoolgirls (AFP/Getty Images)Meanwhile a source claimed the aging glam rocker is being treated like “royalty” in the hostel.
The Mirror revealed on Sunday that he tucked into a fish and chip dinner delivered to his room on Friday evening.
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The predator’s dramatic fall from grace began in 1999 when he was jailed for four months after he admitted to possessing around 4,000 child pornography images.
After his release from prison he went abroad, and in 2002 was expelled from Cambodia amid reports of sex crime allegations.
In March 2006 he was convicted of sexually abusing two young girls in neighbouring Vietnam and spent two-and-a-half years in jail.
The dad joined others who had protested Glitter's release in recent days (Reach Commissioned)In 2012, he was arrested at his London home by detectives from Operation Yewtree - the investigation launched in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal.
He was jailed for 16 years for the historic sex offences following a trial in 2015.
Gadd had been at the height of his fame when he attacked two girls aged 12 and 13 after inviting them backstage to his dressing room.
The bail hostel where the convicted sex abuser is being held (Reach Commissioned)While his youngest victim had been less than 10 years old when he crept into her bed and tried to rape her in 1975.
He faces strict licence conditions and will be monitored with a GPS tag, the Mirror understands.
The police and the MOJ have been approcached for comment.