Thailand deports Glitter to Hong Kong

0 Comments | AFP, August, 2008

HONG KONG (AFP) — Thailand Wednesday deported former glam rocker and convicted paedophile Gary Glitter to Hong Kong after he refused to board a plane to his native Britain, a Thai immigration official said.

"He left Thailand for Hong Kong this evening," Colonel Voravat Amornvivat, a spokesman for the immigration service, told AFP.

Reporters and photographers gathered at Hong Kong airport but there was no immediate official confirmation that he had landed.

Glitter arrived in Bangkok late Tuesday after being deported from Vietnam, where he just finished serving nearly three years in prison for committing obscene acts with two girls aged 11 and 12.

The 64-year-old Briton had been booked to fly to London, but refused to get on the plane, complaining of...