Vietnam police have arrested British rocker Gary Glitter on a child molestation charge, a state-run newspaper reported on Sunday.The Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper quoted immigration police at
Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat airport as saying Glitter — whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd — was arrested while trying to board a plane to Bangkok on Saturday morning.
Immigration police at the airport declined to comment.
The state-run youth newspaper said police escorted Glitter back to the southern resort town of Vung Tau where, according to state-run Vietnamese media, he had taken home several girls aged 15 or under.
On Thursday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Le Dung said police wanted to question the 61-year-old rocker about the allegations, which first surfaced in the British tabloid press.
“If we have evidence of a child sexual violation, very strict legal measures would be applied,” Dung said.
Gary’s at it again, why doesn’t this surprise me. It was only 6 years ago that the aging pop tart was arrested for having been caught with thousands of pictures of child pornography on his home computer.
Supposedly one of the girls is 12 years old… if found guilty he could face 12 years in prison per offense. Under Vietnamese law, sexual contact with a minor carries varying degrees of penalties, depending on the charge. “Obscene acts with a child” can get up to 12 years in prison while child rape carries the maximum penalty of death before a firing squad.
Firing squad, what a waste of a good bullet - just hang the bastard, by his child-loving todger.
November 30th, 2005 at 8:44 pm
I remember many years ago the speed indicator on the motorway by his house outside Aylesbury.
Never really liked the pillock.