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Glitter 'Won't Face Threat Of Death'
Sky News Monday December 26, 0224 P

Gary Glitter may no longer be charged with rape - and the threat of death by firing squad if found guilty.Vietnamese police will formally charge the former glam rock star with molesting girls as young as 12, carrying a maximum penalty of 12 years in prison.But his lawyer has said a more serious charge of child rape - that can carry the death penalty - will be dropped.

Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, has been held in custody in the coastal province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau since being arrested

a month ago.

Police said medical tests on girls who alleged they had had sex with '70s pop star, led them to look into the more serious charge of rape.

However, Glitter's lawyer Le Thanh Kinh claimed the investigation had ended "probably because of a lack of evidence".

The police could not be reached for comment.

Glitter has denied allegations that he molested girls, insisting he was helping them with their English.

He was jailed for four months in Britain in 1999 after being found guilty of storing images of child pornography on his computer.




This guy should have been locked away for ever years ago ....

Uh-huh... "Call me daddy" doesn't appear in any schoolbooks I remember.

At least he likes girls. That just means he's kinky, not a Jacko-type pervert.

I think that there's a nightclub in Evesham named after him. My mate was always talking about taking his wife up the Gary Glitter.

howabout "Do you wanna be in my gang (bang)' :wink:

I know you didn't mean that seriously but I think he's definitely up there with jacko, he was jailed for having child pornography on his computer.
http://travel.telegraph.co.uk/htmlConten...gli13.html

Sounds like rhyming slang for something :mrgreen:

no shit? roll

Is it, I hadn't heard of him until reading recent posts on here. Now I have to figure out that, for which, it is slang, at first glance there are a few candidates.

I was sat here thinking of a nightclub in Evesham :???:
Then I realised it was the brown starfish :roll:

There's one in Skegness called the Bourneville... must be a chain?

It was over your head like a 747 wasn't it. But I reckon you're getting there. Think tea towel holder.

I used to live within staggering distance of Marilyns. Brown Starfish would be a far more apt name.

I see the language nanny is back

It didn't quite go right over my head because I saw the that it was like rhyming slang. Once I got the nod on it being slang, it was obvious.

/Checked and removed any nannyisms, no matter whether correct or incorrect. It wasn't easy though.

The language nanny is the automatic censor which asterisked my word :roll: It's been known to go a little ott and disallow perfectly harmless phrases such as "prick my finger" and places like Scunthorpe. (Let's see if they're still verboten.....)

newsflash ******Language nanny told to back off****** lol

...thanks boss

-now don't abuse it, y'all...... mrgreen