Former pop star Gary Glitter has been jailed for 16 years for sexually abusing three young girls.
Seventy-year-old Glitter, real name Paul Gadd, was sentenced for four counts of indecent assault, attempted rape, and one of having sex with a girl under 13, between 1975 and 1980.
Sentencing, Judge Alistair McCreath told Gadd that his actions had a a ‘profound effect’ on his young victims “for no other reason than to obtain sexual gratification for yourself of a wholly improper kind”.
Despite the modern equivalent sentence for the rape of a child under the age of 13 being life behind bars, the judge said that he had to take into account the “less severe” sentencing guidelines of the time when the offences took place. Instead, Gadd was sentenced to seven years for that crime, the maximum available.
Gadd was found guilty of the crimes after a three-week trial earlier this month.
