Former UK pop star Gary Glitter charged with non-recent sexual offences

https://www.reuters.com/world/former-uk-pop-star-gary-glitter-charged-with-non-recent-sexual-offences-2026-07-02/

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Photonic@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 64d (3 replies)

I feel like this was already common knowledge? Maybe he was never charged

nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 6 pts · 64d (1 reply)

Gadd ‌is ⁠serving a 16-year prison sentence imposed in 2015 after he was convicted of sexually abusing three schoolgirls between 1975 and 1980. He was released on licence in 2023 but ​recalled to prison ​weeks later ⁠for breaching licence conditions. He was first jailed in 1999 for possession of child pornography ​and later moved to Cambodia, but was deported ​in ⁠2002 due to suspected sex offences. In 2006, a Vietnamese court convicted him of committing obscene acts with two girls aged ⁠10 ​and 11 and sentenced him to ​four years in jail.

I'm not seeing the image of a man whose deep contrition has changed him here

Photonic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 64d

Right, thanks. So these are new charges.

Guess I’m also pretty busted right now for not reading past the headline…

borkborkbork@piefed.social · 2 pts · 64d

yeah long overdue

Lucky_Acid@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 64d

They really never change.

blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 64d

It's always who you expect the least isn't it