‘I’ll never find love after what he did to me’: A woman raped by Gary Glitter aged 10 reveals she cried after being told of the pop pedophile’s imminent sacking after just eight years behind bars
- Former pop star Gary Glitter, 78, has been jailed for 16 years but is set to be released
- His crimes included having sex with a 13-year-old girl and attempting to rape an 8-year-old child
- Ms D, who spoke to the Mail on Sunday, was only ten when Glitter abused her
A woman who was raped by Gary Glitter when she was 10 cried when she found out he was about to be released after only serving half his sentence – declaring: “I’m still serving one lifelong prison sentence.”
Glitter, 78, was sentenced to 16 years in prison for monstrous crimes against children in 2015 but is due to be released early in the New Year after just eight years behind bars.
One of his victims, “Ms D,” was ten years old when Glitter repeatedly abused her at his Vietnam mansion in 2005. Last night, she vowed to take the wealthy former pop star to court in a lawsuit for damages.
She said: “He can now enjoy his money and his life, but I live every day of my life with what this man did to me.”
EVIL: Gary Glitter with 10-year-old victim “Ms D” in Vietnam in 2005. Above: The former pop star at the time of his trial in 2015
Glitter – real name Paul Gadd – was jailed in February 2015 for crimes between 1975 and 1980.
His crimes included having sex with a girl under the age of 13, attempting to rape an eight-year-old and molesting a third girl.
He received a “certain sentence,” meaning his expected release early next year — almost exactly eight years after he was handed a 16-year sentence on February 5, 2015 — will not be independently scrutinized for the risk he poses to the public represents.
In sentencing Glitter, Judge Alistair McCreath said he wished he could have jailed the pedophile longer but was constrained by felony sentencing guidelines in the 1970s.
Sources at the Department of Justice have reportedly said Gary Glitter, 70, real name Paul Gadd, would be released as early as February 2023
Glitter, who was also sentenced to four months in prison in 1999 for possessing child abuse images, lured Ms D. to his villa in Vietnam, where he subjected her to a horrific catalog of abuse. She bravely testified against him, along with a 12-year-old victim, and Glitter was jailed for three years before being deported back to the UK.
Ms D, now 27, reacted with shock yesterday when she was told Glitter would soon be released from prison. She said she still has nightmares about Glitter’s abuse and lives in fear of being linked to the notorious case in a country where female abuse victims are often stigmatized.
“I will never find anyone to love me and because of what happened I will never be able to get married. No man here will accept anyone with my past,” she said of her home in the rural Mekong Delta.
Ms. D. hopes Glitter will ever be banned from travel again. “There were many other victims in Vietnam besides me,” she said. “He should never be allowed to leave England again because he is a very dangerous man and he will do bad things again.”
Glitter, who still owns property in London and previously lived in a £2million mansion in Marylebone, is likely to face restrictions, including an ankle mark, on his release.
The former pop star (pictured on TV show Lift Off in 1974) was convicted of one attempted rape, four counts of indecent assault and one sexual act with a girl under 13
Gabrielle Shaw, executive director of the National Association for People Abused in Childhood, said: “These are in no way ‘historic’ crimes as survivors live with the consequences every day.”
Once one of the brightest girls in her class, Ms. D. dropped out of school after her ordeal at the age of 14. Her mother never recovered from the shock of what happened and suffered a stroke that left her partially paralyzed.
Her family struggles on an income of £157 a month and can barely afford the rent of their modest tin-roofed house as Ms D’s mother was forced to stop working.
A Justice Department spokesman said: “Sex offenders released from custody are closely monitored by both the police and the probation service and may be recalled to prison if they violate their strict licensing terms.”