Glitter aiming to return to host Top of the Pops

Convicted child sex offender Gary Glitter is set to return to Britain and make a television comeback after release from a Vietnamese jail, his lawyer announced on Saturday.

Convicted child sex offender Gary Glitter is set to return to Britain and make a television comeback after release from a Vietnamese jail, his lawyer announced on Saturday.

Glitter, who was found guilty in a Vietnamese court of sexually assaulting two local young girls aged 10 and 11 in March, has served only six months of his three-year sentence. However he is due to be released on parole next month, and is desperate to come home.

His lawyer Giovanni Di Stefano is determined to bring the shamed star back to the small screen, as he is in negotiations to buy the rights to now defunct British music chart show, Top of the Pops.

"(Glitter) wants to come back because he misses his home and just wants to put the hell of jail behind him," said Di Stefano.

"For the purposes of my show, I have no problem with Gary Glitter coming on if (he has) artistic musical value.

"I do not care if the devil incarnate appears on the show, providing there is an artistic element."

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