![]() He was also accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old fan, who claimed he subjected her to a series of humiliating sex acts, making her call him ‘daddy’ and dress in a school uniform during their 12-year relationship.īut a jury at Bristol Crown Court acquitted Glitter in 1999 after a magistrate ruled that other evidence of the attempted rape on the eight-year-old girl in 1975 could not be presented to the jury because of the delay in the victim coming forward. The Dahl family had no knowledge of his crimes. Glitter’s paedophilia was exposed when he took his computer containing 4,000 images of child abuse to be fixed at PC World in Bristol in 1997. Glitter, who had already committed several sexual offences at that point, laughs nervously. ‘She would bring them to the house and would charge them £5 a head to come and gaze at the Glitter.’Īddressing Glitter, Miss Dahl – the mother of model and TV presenter Sophie – added: ‘The house actually turned into a sort of Gary Glitter fan club outpost, which you quite liked.’ ‘She used to pack the train full of adolescent school friends in school uniform and they’d skive school. Speaking to host Michael Aspel, she says: ‘My sister Lucy turned it into quite a successful venture. The singer fidgets in his seat, loosens his scarf and puts a finger to his lips in a bid to silence Miss Dahl, who is also an author. In a 1992 episode of This is Your Life, Roald Dahl’s daughter Tessa told how Glitter stayed with her family when he was ‘between jobs’ and was often surrounded by schoolgirls who paid £5 to ‘gaze’ at him. ![]() He is likely to be questioned about an alleged attack on a 12-year-old girl in a hotel bath in 1977 after a key witness came forward during the case.Īnne Glover, a chambermaid working at the Holiday Inn in Leicester, said she walked in on Glitter in the bath with a similar-aged girl the same year.Įmbarrassed: Gary Glitter on This is Your Lifeįootage resurfaced last night of Gary Glitter squirming on television as he thought his secret obsession with under-age girls was going to be revealed. A source close to the inquiry said police were ‘assessing new information’ which emerged during the trial. Now it can be revealed that Glitter faces a fresh police quiz over new allegations. Glitter’s youngest victim was only eight when he crept into her bed and tried to rape her in 1975. He attacked two girls, aged 12 and 13, after inviting them backstage to his dressing room and hotel suites, where the champagne flowed before he forced them to have sex with him or molested them when their mothers left. The 70-year-old former glam rocker’s final downfall came amid outrage that he was granted legal aid to fight the case, despite being wealthy enough to rent a £2million London home and receiving an estimated £300,000 a year in royalties.Ĭhild abuse charities said it was a ‘disgrace’ that the prolific sex offender was able to plead poverty and use tens of thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money to hire a top QC.īut yesterday a jury took just two days to convict him of one count of attempted rape, four counts of indecent assault and one count of sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of 13 at the height of his fame in the 1970s and 1980s. Gary Glitter is likely to die behind bars after being convicted yesterday of sex attacks on three schoolgirls. and an investigation into new abuse allegations Police mugshot: Gary Glitter faces a life sentence.
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