Glitter on the run in Vietnam

[xoggoth]

15? That seems rather mature for our Gary.

Actually I envy the bloke, he has done what I always wanted to do, become a part of our heritage, Having one up the Gary will be in popular usage long aftr we have both snuffed it.

[Joe Black]

http://www.avert.org/aofconsent.htm

Not as bad as suggested.

What is interesting though is the number of countries where same-sex relationships at any age can still land you in prison or, in Irans case, on the chopping block...

[PerlOfWisdom]

Why doesn't he go and live in Iran where the age of consent is 9. Who's the sickest - him or their government?

[John Galt]

bent fecker - little kids - the bloke needs to be hung, drawn and quatered, then feed to the lions - I'd like to know chico views on this.

I agree - should have chopped his bits off the first time - wouldn't bloody do it again then would he

[n5gooner]

bent fecker - little kids - the bloke needs to be hung, drawn and quatered, then feed to the lions - I'd like to know chico views on this.

[Phoenix]

"Did you miss me?, While I was away?
Did you hang my picture on your wall?"


No gazzer...it's wrong

[Clownio]

Link to story

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnamese police want to talk to Gary Glitter about reports the shamed glam rocker was seen with girls as young as 15 at a villa he rented, a government spokesman said on Thursday.

The communist southeast Asian nation's official Thanh Nien youth newspaper quoted neighbours in the southern resort town of Vung Tau as saying Glitter -- whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd -- had taken home several girls aged 15 or under.

Residents of the picturesque tourist town on the mouth of the Saigon River had also complained about his singing, the paper said.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Le Dung told Reuters police wanted to question the 61-year-old rocker about the allegations, which first surfaced in the British tabloid press.

"If we have evidence of child sexual violation, very strict legal measures would be applied," Dung said, adding that Glitter had since disappeared.

The age of consent in Vietnam is 16 and sex with minors is punishable by up to 12 years in jail.

Glitter was sentenced to four months in jail in Britain in 1999 after being found guilty of storing more than 4,000 images of child pornography on the hard drive of his computer.

After his release, he left Britain for Cuba and then later turned up in Phnom Penh.

Child rights activists managed to get him hounded out of Cambodia twice and have his name put on an entry blacklist, although Glitter filed lawsuits last year fighting the deportation orders.

Thanh Nien reported Glitter had been in Vietnam for about a year.


I think the gravitas of this article has been lost slightly with the paragraph referring to the residents complaining about his singing.