Glitter to be deported from Vietnam next week: lawyer

0 Comments | AFP, August, 2008

HANOI, (AFP) — Onetime British pop star Gary Glitter will be deported to Britain next week upon his release from a Vietnamese prison after serving a three-year term for child molestation, his lawyer said Thursday.

"I paid for the ticket for him," Glitter's lawyer Le Thanh Kinh told AFP. "He's a British citizen, (Vietnam) wants him to go back to the UK."

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

The 64-year-old former glam rocker was sentenced to three years in jail but was given a three-month reduction. He is set to be released on Tuesday.

Kinh did not specify the time at which Glitter would be...