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Not Really A Very Suitable Leader of the Gang

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Gary Glitter could face a firing squad or decades in a squalid jail if he is found guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl in Vietnam. The girl is said to have admitted having sex with the 61-year-old former glam rock star, allegedly for 5.50.

The faded glam rocker, best known for the ubiquitous sports anthem “Rock and Roll Part II,” was arrested Saturday morning by Vietnamese immigration authorities on charges of child molestation as he tried to board a flight from Ho Chi Minh City to Bangkok.

Neighbors on Monday said they were surprised to read the allegations against Glitter in the newspaper. They said the only problem they ever had with him was that he sometimes brought home friends to his oceanside villa and sang songs too loudly. “Before this, I never suspected him” of doing anything he’s accused of, said Tran Cong Khanh, 48. “I thought he just liked children.”

The age of consent in the southeast Asian nation is 16. Punishment for having sex with a minor can reportedly range anywhere from 12 years in prison to the death penalty in extreme cases.

The singer had always denied four counts of indecently assaulting a girl in the early 1980s when she was under 16. He also denied four charges of serious sexual assault against the same girl, who is now 34 and married with children. After the verdict the Press Complaints Commission said it would investigate revelations that a newspaper paid the woman who made the allegations … Gary Glitter, charged under his real name, Paul Gadd, smiled as the not guilty verdict was greeted by cheers in the public gallery. He turned to the jury, put his hands together and said “thank you”.

Gary Glitter Fan Club.

1 Response

  1. Dez says:
    2005-11-22 at 10:11:12

    Wanna be in my gang my gang my gang , wanna be in my gang oh yeeeaaaaahhhhh

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