Post by beatlies on May 3, 2006 6:52:53 GMT -5
"Glitter, already registered as a sex offender in Britain after a 1999 child pornography conviction, was arrested at Ho Chi Minh City airport in November 2005 while trying to leave Vietnam."
"At a one-day, closed trial in March, the now shaven-headed Glitter was jailed for three years for sexually abusing two 11-year-old girls in Vung Tau, which is about 125 km (80 miles) from Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon."
Glitter's appeal in May - paper
HANOI (Reuters) - Disgraced "glam rocker" Gary Glitter's appeal against a three-year jail sentence for molesting children in Vietnam will be heard by a court next month, a Vietnamese newspaper reported on Sunday.
Thanh Nien (Young People) newspaper quoted an official of the Ho Chi Minh City Supreme Court as saying that the appeal would be heard on May 19 in Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam.
Glitter, 61, was sentenced on March 3 in the resort town of Vung Tau and was imprisoned there.
The report on the hearing date could not be immediately confirmed. Communist-run Vietnam is in the middle of a four-day holiday weekend marking the end of the war with the Americans on April 30, 1975, and the May Day workers' festival.
Glitter, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, reached the height of his fame in the 1970s with pop songs and flamboyant hairstyle.
At a one-day, closed trial in March, the now shaven-headed Glitter was jailed for three years for sexually abusing two 11-year-old girls in Vung Tau, which is about 125 km (80 miles) from Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon.
The judge said he would be deported from the Southeast Asian country after serving the sentence.
Glitter, already registered as a sex offender in Britain after a 1999 child pornography conviction, was arrested at Ho Chi Minh City airport in November 2005 while trying to leave Vietnam.
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Britain's "Gary Glitter"
"At a one-day, closed trial in March, the now shaven-headed Glitter was jailed for three years for sexually abusing two 11-year-old girls in Vung Tau, which is about 125 km (80 miles) from Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon."
Glitter's appeal in May - paper
HANOI (Reuters) - Disgraced "glam rocker" Gary Glitter's appeal against a three-year jail sentence for molesting children in Vietnam will be heard by a court next month, a Vietnamese newspaper reported on Sunday.
Thanh Nien (Young People) newspaper quoted an official of the Ho Chi Minh City Supreme Court as saying that the appeal would be heard on May 19 in Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam.
Glitter, 61, was sentenced on March 3 in the resort town of Vung Tau and was imprisoned there.
The report on the hearing date could not be immediately confirmed. Communist-run Vietnam is in the middle of a four-day holiday weekend marking the end of the war with the Americans on April 30, 1975, and the May Day workers' festival.
Glitter, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, reached the height of his fame in the 1970s with pop songs and flamboyant hairstyle.
At a one-day, closed trial in March, the now shaven-headed Glitter was jailed for three years for sexually abusing two 11-year-old girls in Vung Tau, which is about 125 km (80 miles) from Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon.
The judge said he would be deported from the Southeast Asian country after serving the sentence.
Glitter, already registered as a sex offender in Britain after a 1999 child pornography conviction, was arrested at Ho Chi Minh City airport in November 2005 while trying to leave Vietnam.
(c) Reuters 2006. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by caching, framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters and the Reuters sphere logo are registered trademarks and trademarks of the Reuters group of companies around the world.
This article: news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=646682006
Last updated: 30-Apr-06 10:53 BST
Britain's "Gary Glitter"