However, he has now been released from the Dorset jail where he was serving his sentence, according to the Press Association. The news agency reported that he had been released from the low-security prison on Friday morning, but he will still be subject to “license conditions,” meaning he will serve the remainder of his sentence in the community.
Glitter was originally arrested as part of a large-scale police investigation dubbed Operation Yewtreewhich was launched by the Metropolitan Police to investigate historical sex crimes perpetrated by celebrities following the scandal of Jimmy Savile. Savile was a longtime radio DJ and television presenter who was exposed as a prolific sexual predator after his death in 2011.
Glitter rose to fame as a glam rock singer in the 1970s and 1980s with hits like “Do You Wanna Touch Me” and “I Love You Love Me Love”. His career effectively ended in 1999 after he was sentenced to four months in prison after pleading guilty to possessing 4,000 child sexual abuse images. The sentence came just hours after he was found not guilty of sexually assaulting an underage girl in a separate trial.
In 2006 he was convicted of sexually abusing two underage girls in Vietnam and sentenced to three years, of which he served two and a half years.
Source: Ambito
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