Gary Glitter sufferer not allowed to learn assertion at parole listening to
A lady who was abused by paedophile popstar Gary Glitter has not been allowed to learn a sufferer influence assertion at his non-public parole listening to, her lawyer has stated.
The disgraced singer is believed to have appeared earlier than the Parole Board on Wednesday as they take into account whether or not to free him after he was locked up from breaching his bail circumstances.
The 79-year-old was discovered browsing the darkish internet simply 39 days after being routinely launched midway by way of his 16-year sentence for sexually abusing three schoolgirls between 1975 and 1980.
A lawyer for considered one of his victims has now claimed that she wasn’t allowed to talk at his parole listening to, regardless of being keen to take action, and that he wasn’t allowed to put in writing to the Parole Board in regards to the intercourse offender’s lack of regret.
The course of is happening behind closed doorways after an utility to have it held in public was rejected in October.
Gary Glitter, 79, was jailed in 2015 for sexually abusing three college women between 1975 and 1980. Prior to that conviction, he was jailed for 4 months in 1999 for proudly owning 1000’s of kid abuse photographs
Glitter spent two and a half years in prisons in Vietnam after he was convicted for sexually abusing two women, aged 10 and 11
Richard Scorer, a specialist abuse lawyer for Slater & Gordon, stated the scenario had been ‘shrouded in secrecy’.
He instructed the Mirror: ‘She [the victim] hasn’t been given any alternative to learn her witness influence assertion.
‘We tried to put in writing to the Parole Board relating to Glitter’s lack of regret. We had been instructed that our letter couldn’t be positioned earlier than them immediately however the info may very well be included within the Probation Service’s report back to the board.
‘We have no idea what info has in actual fact been offered to the panel listening to relating to the matter immediately – the method is shrouded in secrecy regardless of earlier guarantees from the Parole Board to undertake a extra open strategy.’
He added that the girl was ‘offended and pissed off’ after discovering out the listening to can be held in non-public, and that it’s ‘unacceptable’ that ‘no one will know what proof the Parole Board has thought-about’ when making its determination.
The Parole Board declined to remark when contacted by the publication.
The similar lady can be suing Glitter – whose actual title is Paul Gadd – for damages following the ‘appalling sexual assaults which he dedicated on her when she was 12 years previous’, Mr Scorer stated previous to the listening to.
‘This case is continuing by way of the High Court,’ he stated.
‘Throughout the case Glitter has refused to co-operate in any respect and has ignored court docket orders, intentionally making the method extra worrying and traumatic for our shopper.
‘This behaviour demonstrates Glitter’s complete lack of regret.’
The now-disgraced pop star performing in London in 1972 earlier than he was jailed for little one intercourse offences
Glitter was recalled to jail lower than six weeks after being launched after he was seen allegedly viewing downloaded photographs of kids
HMP The Verne in Portland, Dorset, the place Glitter is serving his jail sentence
Glitter was routinely launched from HMP The Verne, a low-security jail in Portland, Dorset, in February final yr after serving half of his 16-year fixed-term determinate sentence.
Less than six weeks after strolling free, he was taken again to jail for breaching his licence circumstances by allegedly viewing downloaded photographs of kids.
In October 2023 an utility to have this month’s parole listening to in public was rejected, on the grounds that it was too tough to contact all of his victims.
Glitter’s fall from grace started within the late Nineteen Nineties when he was jailed for possessing 1000’s of kid abuse photographs and was jailed for 4 months in 1999.
Six months after shifting to Cambodia in 2002 he was expelled amid experiences of intercourse crime allegations.
In March 2006 he was convicted of sexually abusing two women, aged 10 and 11, in Vietnam and spent two and a half years in jail.
The offences for which he was jailed in 2015 got here to mild as a part of Operation Yewtree, the Metropolitan Police investigation launched within the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal.
