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07/02/2007
Glitter child abuse sentence reduced
Former pop star Gary Glitter has had his prison sentence for child molestation in Vietnam reduced by three months.
The British rock star - real name Paul Francis Gadd - is serving a three-year prison sentence after being found guilty of abusing two Vietnamese girls in March 2006.
The incidents involved two girls, aged 10 and 11, from Vung Tau, a coastal city in the south of the country.
The decision, announced as part of a traditional nationwide Lunar New Year prison amnesty, means that Glitter, 62, will now be released in August 2008.
Prisoners with good records traditionally have their sentences reduced under the amnesty.
Making the decision, the panel of judges said that they had to balance Glitter's good behaviour in prison with the seriousness of the crimes he had committed.
Glitter served half of a four-month prison sentence in the UK in 1999 after being convicted of possessing child pornography.
He moved to Cambodia in 2002, but was deported later that year after being detained over suspected sex offences.
When he is released from prison in Vietnam, he will be deported. He may face further charges if he returns to Britain.
(KMcA)
The British rock star - real name Paul Francis Gadd - is serving a three-year prison sentence after being found guilty of abusing two Vietnamese girls in March 2006.
The incidents involved two girls, aged 10 and 11, from Vung Tau, a coastal city in the south of the country.
The decision, announced as part of a traditional nationwide Lunar New Year prison amnesty, means that Glitter, 62, will now be released in August 2008.
Prisoners with good records traditionally have their sentences reduced under the amnesty.
Making the decision, the panel of judges said that they had to balance Glitter's good behaviour in prison with the seriousness of the crimes he had committed.
Glitter served half of a four-month prison sentence in the UK in 1999 after being convicted of possessing child pornography.
He moved to Cambodia in 2002, but was deported later that year after being detained over suspected sex offences.
When he is released from prison in Vietnam, he will be deported. He may face further charges if he returns to Britain.
(KMcA)
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