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The Nation

21-08-2008

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GLITTER WORLD TOUR 2008

China denies Glitter's entry

By Telegraph online

 

The convicted child abuser has refused to be deported to Britain and fled to Hong Kong yesterday in an embarrassment for Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary.

 

 

But late last night the Chinese authorities denied him entry, which left Glitter stranded at the airport attempting to find another country to accept him.

 

He was expected to fly back to Bangkok this morning, the Foreign Office said last night.

 

Glitter's departure from Vietnam, where he has served 27 months in jail for child abuse, descended into farce as he defied British Embassy officials by flying to Hong Kong.

 

Miss Smith had expected the singer, whom she described yesterday as a "despicable person", to return to London. Earlier this week she said he would be banned from foreign travel to prevent "sex tourism".

 

"I want Gary Glitter to be controlled whilst he's here and I don't want him to be able to go anywhere else in the world in order to abuse children," she said.

 

Glitter's release from prison in Vietnam has been chaotic. The 64-year-old, whose real name is Paul Gadd, departed from Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday on a Thai Airways flight to London, via Bangkok.

 

In Bangkok, he refused to board the transfer flight to Heathrow and then demanded to be taken to hospital, claiming he was suffering a heart attack and earache.

 

A doctor declared him fit to travel after diagnosing him with costochondritis, an inflammation of the ribs that causes chest pain. The stand-off continued as Glitter booked himself into a transit lounge room and declared he was a "free man".

 

Thai immigration officials said he would not be granted entry to the country because he posed a threat to "domestic morality" but negotiators agreed he could instead travel to Hong Kong.

 

Thai Airways confirmed that Glitter had left yesterday on flight number TG602, landing in Hong Kong at 11pm local time.

 

The Foreign Office was later told that Chinese immigration officials had refused Glitter a visa. A spokesman said: "It is up to the Chinese authorities what action they take next."

 

Glitter was convicted of downloading child pornography in Britain in 1999 after a computer repair shop found the images on his laptop. He served two months of a four-month sentence. He left the country and moved to Spain and Cuba before travelling to south-east Asia.

 

He was kicked out of Cambodia after facing allegations of sex crimes and moved to the Vietnamese coastal resort of Vung Tau, before being jailed for molesting two girls.

 

Up to 35 police officers have been on standby at Heathrow for Glitter's return - at a cost of �20,000 - including the Metropolitan Police's Jigsaw sex offenders team and two detectives from the child abuse unit.

 

However, using a British passport issued to him in 2002, he is free to travel anywhere that will issue him a visa and the authorities are powerless to enforce his return.

 

He is said to be looking at flights to Sri Lanka and Singapore.

 

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The Nation

21-08-2008

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GLITTER WORLD TOUR 2008

China denies Glitter's entry

By Telegraph online

 

The convicted child abuser has refused to be deported to Britain and fled to Hong Kong yesterday in an embarrassment for Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary.

 

 

But late last night the Chinese authorities denied him entry, which left Glitter stranded at the airport attempting to find another country to accept him.

 

He was expected to fly back to Bangkok this morning, the Foreign Office said last night.

 

 

 

This piece of shit is manipulating the system. Seriously, is he gonna be in transit for the rest of his phedofilic (is that a word?) life? Gary...get your ass back to your home country, face up to your pending charges and move on!!

 

And why doesn't Thailand step up and tell Hong Kong he is not welcome here? Why would he choose to try to come back here when he was denied just 24 hours ago? So many questions. I'd like to be in a room alone with Gary for just a little while to ask him these questions. Yeah...that's what I'd do. hehehe

 

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Donâ??t believe there are any pending charges in the UK. What appears to have happened is the Home Secretary intended to use him as a publicity stunt for a new law preventing convicted sex offenders from traveling abroad and they couldnâ??t keep their mouths shut long enough for him to actually arrive and have his passport confiscated.

 

What I expect to happen, probably today, is the Thai authorities will detain him (even though he has not gone through immigration, he is still in Thailand) and bundle his little ass onto a non-stop Thai flight to the UK. He could even end up in an economy class seat. :smirk:

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"In Bangkok, he refused to board the transfer flight to Heathrow"

 

The cunt was travelling with a police escort. WTF were they doing? What's wrong with the Brits? I am sure that any other country would not allow their prisoner to dictate whether he wants to go with them or not! Sheesh, what are those cops paid for? :banghead:

 

Cheers,

SD

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"In Bangkok, he refused to board the transfer flight to Heathrow"

 

The cunt was travelling with a police escort. WTF were they doing? What's wrong with the Brits? I am sure that any other country would not allow their prisoner to dictate whether he wants to go with them or not! Sheesh, what are those cops paid for? :banghead:

 

Cheers,

SD

 

A British police escort who had no jurisdiction..

I mean they couldn't even shoo the media back into economy..

 

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