Paedophile Glitter faces the music back in Britain

0 Comments | AFP, August, 2008

LONDON (AFP) — Paedophile 1970s glam rocker Gary Glitter arrived back in Britain on Friday after a farcical merry-go-round of Asian airports and was immediately ordered to register as a top level sex offender.

Despite the fact he may never leave the country again, Glitter, 64, claimed he was pleased to be back, three days after he was kicked out of Vietnam where he served a jail term for child molestation.

The shamed rocker arrived in London on a flight from Bangkok, having been denied entry by Hong Kong and Thailand.

Straight away, District judge David Simpson dismissed his attempt to avoid signing the sex offenders register.

At Uxbridge Magistrates' Court in west London, Simpson said the faded star had "demonstrated his desire to avoid the...