Vile paedo Gary Glitter will NOT be freed from jail as disgraced pop star loses bid for parole

DISGRACED Gary Glitter has lost his bid for freedom after being hauled back to jail.

The paedo pop star, 79, was sent back to prison after breaching his licencing conditions in March last year.

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Glitter - real name Paul Gadd - had only been released from his 16-year sentence for abusing three schoolgirls just one month before.

He had faced a private parole hearing to decide whether he can be released or serve the rest of his jail term behind bars.

The Parole Board confirmed today Glitter had lost his bid.

The panel said: "After considering the circumstances of his offending, the lack of progress made while in custody and on licence, and the other evidence presented at the hearing, the panel was not satisfied that release at this point would be safe for the protection of the public.

"Rather, the panel considered that Mr Gadd was appropriately located in custody where outstanding levels of risk could be addressed."

Glitter preyed on his young victims during the height of his fame in the 1970s.

He was first jailed in 1999 after a sickening cache of child abuse images was found on his laptop.

The former rocker later hid in Cuba where he fathered a love child with a Yudenia Sosa Martinez before moving to Cambodia.

But Glitter was deported for suspected child abuse in 2002 and next settled in Vietnam.

The predator was caged again in the country in 2006 for abusing two girls aged 11 and 12.

Glitter returned to the UK in 2015 after travelling between countries notorious for sex tourism.

The extent of his crimes was revealed years later when he became the first person to be arrested under Operation Yewtree - the investigation launched in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal.

Glitter was locked up for 16 years in 2015 for historic sex attacks on three young girls but was released midway through the sentence.

He was returned to prison for breaching his licence after The Sun on Sunday revealed he was allegedly viewing videos of children.

The choice to allow Glitter a hearing was previously slammed by lawyers representing one of his victims, who was just 12 years old when the singer abused her.

Richard Scorer, from Slater and Gordon who represents her, said: "Throughout the case Gadd has refused to co-operate at all and has ignored court orders, deliberately making the process more stressful and traumatic for our client.

"This behaviour demonstrates Gadd's total lack of remorse.

"We have made the Parole Board aware of his behaviour and they have confirmed that this information will be included in a report to the Parole Board panel ahead of the hearing.

"I hope the board take this matter very seriously as it is yet more evidence of Gadd's lack of remorse, and contempt for his victims."

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