Glitter was the number one target of Operation Yewtree, the celebrity sex crime squad set up by Scotland Yard after Jimmy Savile was exposed. Judge McCreath said the singer had never admitted what he did was wrong. 29 October 2009 PasteMagazine Shamed pop star Gary Glitter is to be executed in a new television programme examining capital punishment.The 90-minute Channel 4 film reintroduces the death penalty to Britain and explores public attitudes to it.
The court heard Glitter saw a therapist in 2011 after which his travel ban was relaxed. The former rock star was jailed for four months in 1999 for possessing indecent images of children and sentenced to three years in Vietnam in 2006 for sexually assaulting two girls aged 10 and 11. He was also found guilty of two counts of indecently assaulting the 12-year-old and two counts of indecently assaulting the 13-year-old.
Quite why the death penalty should have been reintroduced. Glitter, of Marylebone, central London, was found guilty of the attempted rape of the eight-year-old and unlawful sexual intercourse with the 12-year-old. The Execution of Gary Glitter (Monday, Channel 4), ‘a work of fiction’, was set in a Britain which had just reintroduced the death penalty. Judge McCreath told him: “She was an extremely vulnerable child for reasons of which I accept you knew nothing. Two years later, he groped a 13-year-old girl as she sat on his lap in his dressing room after a Watford concert. The judge said: “You gave no thought to the harm you were doing her.”
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The singer, then in his 30s, sexually assaulted her before having full sexual intercourse. He invited them both to his hotel, then lured the 12-yearold into his bedroom. Glitter’s next victim was a fan whose mother had taken her to see him in concert at Leicester in 1977. Judge McCreath told him: “You did that child deep harm which has persisted throughout her life.”
The next morning, he acted as if nothing had happened. Glitter’s youngest victim was a guest at his country house when he tried to rape her in 1975.