Glitter victims’ anguish as he’s freed after just 8 years in prison

A VICTIM of Gary Glitter last night sobbed that she had been ‘let down by the justice system’ as the paedophile was freed halfway through his 16-year jail term.

The shamed glam rocker served just eight years after being jailed for a string of sex crimes against young girls.

Rule changes which force sex offenders to serve two-thirds of their sentences have been introduced since his conviction – but cannot be enforced retrospectively.

‘He should never be let out of prison for what he did,’ said Glitter’s victim, who was 12 when she was attacked in 1977.

‘He’s just done eight years but I’m doing a life sentence. I can never forget what this monster did to me.

‘I really believe that he is still a danger to society, who knows what he could go on to do? I feel as if I’ve been let down by the jusmemories.’ tice system and that I’ve been attacked by Glitter again.’

Now in her 50s, the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, added: ‘ This is not right. It’s brought back too many painful The paedophile, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was released from The Verne prison, Dorset, early yesterday.

He was sentenced to 16 years in 2015 for attempted rape, four counts of indecent assault and one of having sex with a girl under 13. A lawyer representing another of Glitter’s victims, who is seeking damages for childhood sexual abuse, said the ‘distressing and traumatic’ early release had ‘devalued her suffering’. Richard Scorer, from law firm Slater and Gordon, said: ‘This is a very hard day for her and we imagine for other victims too.’ Glitter, 78, rose to fame in the 1970s with a flamboyant stage persona and a series of chart-topping hits.

His reputation was destroyed in 1999 when he admitted to 54 counts of possessing indecent images of children, and was sentenced to four months in jail.

Later, he moved to Vietnam, where he was jailed for molesting two girls aged 11 and 12.

After yesterday’s release, Glitter will be placed under ‘pretty tight’ licence conditions including surrendering his passport, wearing a GPS tag and taking a lie detector test, sources said.

It is thought he will be required to live at a bail hostel initially, instead of returning to the London flat he is thought to still own. The apartment, worth an estimated £2million, is on the top floor of a Victorian red-brick mansion block near Baker Street.

Mothers living in the block were distraught that he could move in.

Delphine, 41, a French mother of two young children, said: ‘I have two young children, so I don’t want him to live here at all. It seems you have to kill someone for them to actually do something. There are quite a few families in this block with young children who are upset.’

Another couple said they were ‘not happy’, having had issues when Glitter lived there before his imprisonment.

Despite his sordid criminal past, Glitter’s music is still available on streaming giant Spotify, where his most famous tracks have amassed tens of millions of plays.

‘Abuse left me with life sentence’