Gary Glitter to be freed from Vietnam jail this month

0 Comments | AFP, August, 2008

HANOI (AFP) — British pop singer Gary Glitter will be freed from a Vietnam prison on August 19 after serving a three-year term for child molestation, an official said Friday.

Glitter, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, was arrested in Vietnam on November 19, 2005 for charges of committing obscene acts with two girls aged 11 and 12 in the southern Vietnamese resort town of Vung Tau.

"According to Vietnamese law, Glitter will be freed on August 19," said Chu Xuan Mau, an official from the department in charge of prisoners' file at Z30D Thu Duc jail in Binh Thuan province, where he is being held.

"The decision on his release will be read before him that day. It will be signed by the director of the prison," he told AFP.

Glitter was sentenced to three...