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A British diplomatic official says China has refused to allow convicted pedophile Gary Glitter entry into Hong Kong. British glam rocker Gary Glitter (64 years old), aka Paul Francis Gadd, was jailed in March 2006 after he was convicted of repeatedly molesting two girls aged 10 and 11. His sentence was later reduced for good behavior. Glitter was just released from Vietnam's Thu Duc prison and was immediately driven to Ho Chi Minh City Airport, so he can be deported and flown back to London. Glitter refused to board the plane claiming he had a heart condition. He has been cleared by doctors, and police say they will force him on the plane. The rocker received a new passport in November, meaning he can travel to any country that will have him, the U.K.'s Daily Mail reported.
Glitter served time in London on child pornography charges, so London authorities will force him to sign a sex offender agreement when, or if, he arrives. At present, Glitter is refusing to return to Britain because he would be forced to sign the sex offenders’ register and would have a travel ban put on him. So far he has been hopping from Cuba, to Spain, and Cambodia, who won’t let him back in their country after he was deported in 2003 over alleged sex offenses, then to Vietnam. Now he says he might go to Hong Kong or Singapore.
No one wants Glitter in their country, yet he says he wants to start making music again. Read more on Glitter’s pedophile past here.
The British diplomatic official says it's unclear what will happen to Glitter next. She says his current status is a matter for the Chinese authorities.
Glitter flew to Hong Kong Wednesday night after staying in the transit area of Bangkok's international airport for several hours.
"The Chinese authorities have informed us that they have refused Paul Gadd entry into Hong Kong," a spokeswoman for Britain's Foreign Office said. Glitter's real name is Paul Francis Gadd.
"It's a matter for the Chinese authorities what happens next," she said.
A second Foreign Office spokesman said Glitter was interviewed by Chinese immigrations officials after arriving in Hong Kong.
Glitter was turned away "as a result of those interviews," the spokesman said. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity, citing official policy.
In a statement, the Hong Kong government said it doesn't comment on individual cases but that immigration officials would "take into consideration all relevant factors and circumstances when processing applications."
The territory was making arrangements for Glitter's departure, and he might be returned to Thailand, according to a Hong Kong official, who also declined to be identified, citing policy.
Lt. Gen. Chatchawal Suksomchit, the chief of Thailand's immigration police, said Glitter was denied entry because under Thai immigration laws, those convicted of child sex abuse in a foreign country can be barred.
Glitter flew out of Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam on Tuesday and was booked to change planes in Bangkok en route to London.
A Thai immigration official at the airport said Glitter refused to board the London-bound plane, complaining of an earache. Immigration officials, he said, gave the airline permission to take Glitter to an airport clinic where the doctor checked his complaint. He was then returned to the airport's transit area.
The Daily Mail reported that Glitter claimed he was suffering a heart attack, but was later diagnosed with costochondritis, an inflammation of the ribs that causes chest pain.
"Rock and Roll (Part 2)" — also known as "The Hey Song" because of the only intelligible word in the anthem — has often been played at U.S. sporting events, particularly when the home teams scores or wins.
After Glitter's conviction in March 2006, the NFL asked teams to stop playing the song. Subsequently, some professional and college teams in the U.S. and Canada have discontinued its use.
In a recent interview with Vietnamese newspaper Cong An Nhan Dan (People's Police), Glitter said he was thinking about resuming his singing career and that he might move to Hong Kong or Singapore. His lawyer, Le Thanh Kinh, has said Glitter does not want to return to Britain.
In his 1970s heyday, Glitter performed in glittery jumpsuits, silver platform shoes and bouffant wigs. He sold 18 million records and recorded a string of British top-10 hits. "Rock and Roll (Part 2)" cracked the top 10 in the United States.
Despite his lengthy jail sentence (which was reduced for good behavior), Glitter could still have more than $9 million stashed in the bank due to selling most of the rights to his back catalog, the Daily Mail reports.
Glitter's fall from grace began in 1997, when he brought his laptop computer to a repair shop and an employee there discovered he had downloaded thousands of hardcore pornographic images of children. Two years later, British authorities convicted him of possession of child pornography, and Glitter served half of his four-month jail term.
In November 2005, police in Vietnam launched a weeklong manhunt for Glitter after allegations arose that he had been molesting girls at his seaside villa in Vung Tau. He was arrested at the Ho Chi Minh City airport.
He was convicted in March 2006 in a verdict that said that Glitter had molested the girls repeatedly at his villa and in nearby hotels.
Glitter's sentence was reduced by three months last year for good behavior during Vietnam's annual Lunar New Year prison amnesty.
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Gary Glitter (born Paul Francis Gadd on May 8, 1944 in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England) is an English rock and pop singer and songwriter who had a string of chart successes with a collection of 1970s glam rock hits, including "Rock and Roll parts 1 & 2", "I Love You Love Me Love", "I'm the Leader of the Gang (I Am)" and "Hello, Hello, I'm Back Again". GutterUncensored.com
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