Gary Glitter victim to return to High Court

A victim of Gary Glitter is set to have her compensation claim against the former glam rock singer return to the High Court on Wednesday.

The woman is suing Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, following his 2015 conviction for abusing her and two other young victims between 1975 and 1980.

At a hearing in London earlier this month, the woman’s lawyer said she was seeking damages over the “profound and long-lasting consequences” of the abuse when she was 12-years-old.

Glitter did not attend the previous hearing, nor was he represented by a lawyer, with the High Court told he had not so far engaged with the civil case.

The woman, who cannot be identified, has previously secured a “default judgment” in her claim – a ruling in her favour over Glitter’s liability.

Mrs Justice Tipples, the judge overseeing the case, will now be asked to decide what level of compensation the woman could receive at a hearing on Wednesday.

The case was previously adjourned to ensure Glitter received case documents at HMP Risley in Cheshire and to give him the opportunity to respond.

It comes after the Parole Board rejected Glitter’s bid to be freed from jail in a decision published on February 7.

Glitter was jailed for 16 years in 2015 for sexually abusing three schoolgirls. His sentence expires in February 2031.

He was automatically released from HMP The Verne, a low-security prison in Portland, Dorset, in February last year after serving half of his fixed-term determinate sentence.

Glitter was put back behind bars less than six weeks after walking free when police monitoring showed he had breached his licence conditions by reportedly trying to access the dark web and viewing downloaded images of children.

In the late 1990s, the ex-pop star was jailed for possessing thousands of child abuse images.

In 2002, he was expelled from Cambodia amid reports of sex crime allegations and in March 2006 he was convicted of sexually abusing two girls, aged 10 and 11, in Vietnam, and spent two-and-a-half years in jail.

The offences for which he was jailed in 2015 came to light as part of Operation Yewtree, the Metropolitan Police investigation launched in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal.