Gary Glitter thrown back in jail after ‘using smartphone to ask about Dark Web’

13 March 2023 , 18:26

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Shamed rock star Gary Glitter is being recalled to jail after breaking the rules of his bail just one month after being released

Glam rock paedophile Gary Glitter was tonight recalled to prison - just 38 days after he was released.

The disgraced pop star, 78, was escorted back to jail from his secluded bail hostel after a probe into his use of a smartphone and the Dark Web.

It follows revelations this weekend that Glitter was using a smartphone and was recorded saying he wants to find "the Onion".

The term is slang for the seedy Dark Web, used by paedophiles as it is hard to monitor or trace users.

Justice chiefs have now decided the use of the phone breached conditions imposed when he was freed last month.

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A source said: "Glitter hasn't left the hostel since he was released - he's even had other convicts do his shopping for him.

Shamed rock star Gary Glitter is being recalled to jail

"But now he's been sent back to prison for breaching his licence it's clear he was never sorry for his crimes."

He was freed from prison in Dorset and has spent the past month in a hostel in the south of England.

Footage obtained apparently from a fellow inmate shows him looking gaunt and with a hearing aid.

Last month Glitter was released from HMP Verne in Portland, Dorset, half-way through a 16 year sentence for the historic sexual abuse of three girls (Getty Images)

He can be heard saying: "Shall I get rid of this DuckDuck?" and a companion replies: "Yeah, I wouldn't bother using that."

Glitter responds: "So what do I do next? Let's try and find this Onion."

It's believed "DuckDuck" is a reference to a search engine with high levels of privacy.

Glitter, who wears a GPS tag has a nightly curfew and is barred from going near schools, playgrounds or swimming pools as part of his license conditions

Glitter was freed after serving half a 16-year term imposed in 2015 for sexually abusing girls aged under 13 during his glam rock heyday in the 1970s and 80s.

He was previously jailed for four months in 1999 over a vile cache of 4,000 child abuse images found on his computer.

Glitter went abroad and was jailed again in 2006 for sexually abusing two girls in Vietnam.

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