Glitter child-molestation sentence reduced
Gary Glitter’s child-molestation sentence has been reduced by a Vietnamese court today.
The reduction cuts the former glam rocker’s three-year jail term by three months as part of a nationwide Lunar New Year prison amnesty, a judge said.
Glitter, convicted of molesting two Vietnamese girls, will now be released in August 2008, said Tran Thi Thien Huong, a judge on the deciding panel.
Vietnam traditionally reduces the sentences of inmates with good prison records just before Tet, as the Lunar New Year is known in Vietnam.
Glitter, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, was convicted in March 2006 of committing “obscene acts with children.
The incidents involved two girls, ages 10 and 11, from the southern coastal city of Vung Tau.
He has been jailed since November 2005.
