He turned to the jury, put his hands together and said "thank you". Gary Glitter, charged under his real name, Paul Gadd, smiled as the not guilty verdict was greeted by cheers in the public gallery. The Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine, has also called for a full report from the judge over the payments. He said: "It is not illegal but it is to be greatly deprecated." The judge had branded the pay-out "highly reprehensible". The court was told that the woman had taken £10,000 from the News of the World in exchange for her story and would receive £25,000 if the star was convicted. He also denied four charges of serious sexual assault against the same girl, who is now 34 and married with children.Īfter the verdict the Press Complaints Commission said it would investigate revelations that a newspaper paid the woman who made the allegations. The singer had always denied four counts of indecently assaulting a girl in the early 1980s when she was under 16. News of the initial arrest prompted further allegations of assault in a newspaper - dismissed by a jury earlier on Friday. In mitigation the defence said Glitter had downloaded the pictures soley for his own use and was simply in possession of them, but the judge rejected this, saying Glitter had diligently visited sites worldwide. Mr Royce said they showed "very young children, some appeared as young as two, in the main ranging from three, four, five and six up to possibly about nine or 10". More than 4,000 such images, mostly of young girls but many of young boys, were found. The examinations, said Mr Royce, revealed firstly that he had downloaded the material and secondly "that it was carefully, deliberately and enthusiastically But what he found, said the QC, was "disturbing".Ī police sergeant arrested Glitter when he returned to collect his computer.Īn initial examination of the computer revealed that it stored "the most appalling images" of very young children engaged in most humiliating sexual acts, said the QC. Mr John Royce, QC, told the court that a technician tried to correct the fault and in order to see if he was successful had to look into a file. The charges came after a member of staff spotted the material on Glitter's computer, in for repair at PC World in Bristol. Library as "filthy and revolting" and of the "worst possible type". The judge, Mr Justice Butterfield, described the pictures in Glitter's vast He replied "guilty" in a strong, clear voice after the first count was put to him and his voice became less clear with each subsequent charge. Reappearing at Bristol Crown Court, Glitter admitted 54 offences of downloading porn from the Internet dating between 3 January 1997 and 18 November 1997. He will be placed on the sex offenders register. Solicitor Henri Brandman said Glitter would appeal against the sentence. The admission comes just hours after the rock idol was cleared of eight counts of sexually assaulting a teenage fan nearly 20 years ago. The BBC's Stephen Cape reports: "Gary Glitter is tonight behind bars" Pop star Gary Glitter has been jailed for four months after admitting to a collection of 4,000 hardcore photographs of children being abused. The song seems pretty harmless, but Glitter is currently in the middle of a 16-year prison sentence for attempted rape, four counts of indecent assault as well as one count of sex with an underage girl of 13.BBC News | UK | Glitter jailed over child porn Joker audiences have taken to Twitter to criticize the film for using Rock and Roll Part 2, an English Glam rock song by Gary Glitter. Now, it looks like Joker is getting even more flack, this time for using a song by Gary Glitter. The New York Police Department even decided to patrol screenings of the film to prevent potential shootings from happening. There has been a lot of concern over the film's potential to inspire violence in individuals with the same personality and the same demeanor as Joaquin Phoenix's Arthur Fleck – not only have there been reports about the military confirming at least one "credible" threat of mass shooting, but the FBI has been looking into Joker social media posts, too. Joker might have received critical acclaim, but the gritty comic book movie which won Best Picture at this year's Venice Film Festival has also been followed by a shroud of controversy ever since the film's global premiere.
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