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On 19 January 2015 Glitter appeared at Southwark Crown Court, London, UK accused of seven counts of indecent assault, one count of attempted rape, and two other sexual offences, against three girls, between 1975 and 1980. The trial lasted two and a half weeks.On 5 February 2015 he was convicted of attempted rape, four counts of indecent assault and one of having sex with a girl under the age of 13. He was acquitted of the three other counts. He was remanded in custody. On 27 February 2015 he was sentenced to 16 years in prison.

Jailed for three years in Vietnam after being convicted of sexually abusing two young girls. (March 2006)

Due to the nature of his legal convictions, all of his Music and surviving TV appearances, apart from those in certain film soundtracks, have been withdrawn from broadcast in the UK.

At least 19 countries--including Cuba, Cambodia and the Philippines--announced that they would refuse to admit him before he returned to the UK.

Deported from Cambodia "in the best interest of the children", according to Cambodian authorities. This in response to his 1999 criminal conviction for possession of child pornography. (January 2003)

On his return to the United Kingdom, he was ordered to sign the Sex Offenders Register for life.

He was refused entry to Thailand following his release from prison and threatened with deportation.

He never knew his father and was brought up in by his mother and grandmother. During his childhood he was placed in and out of care.

In the early 1990s he founded his own label, Attitude Records.

From the late seventies to the early nineties, he spent a combined three and a half years on the British charts.

He was cited as an influence by performers such as Paul Young and Adam Ant, while contemporaries such as Noddy Holder and David Essex stated their admiration for his work.

British Glam Rock singer.

He was hard to control and was taken into local authority care at the age of 10, along with his brother.

Although nominally a Protestant, he was educated at a Catholic school.

During his long career as a singer, Glitter undertook many tours to various venues around the world. His first tour was of the Middle East, as Paul Raven and the Boston International in 1967. He toured amongst other places, Cyprus, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Armenia.

On 3 February 2023, he was released on licence after serving half of his sentence, due to the sentencing guidelines in place at the time of the historic offences. On 13 March 2023, Glitter was recalled to prison for breaching his licence conditions.

On 25 June 2008, The Daily Telegraph reported that Glitter planned to record a new album after his prison release.

On 20 January 2008, the News of the World reported that Glitter had suffered a severe heart attack. These reports were denied, although it was confirmed that he had been diagnosed with heart problems. Nguyen Huu Quang (the director of the hospital in Bình Thuan near the prison where Glitter was serving his sentence) said, "Glitter was admitted to our hospital with acute diarrhoea. While we were treating him, we found out that he also has a cardiovascular disorder.".

His song "Rock 'n' Roll Part 2" was used in Feroz Khan's Dharmatma (1988). The song appears during a night club sequence.

In October 2012, ITV aired the documentary The Other Side of Jimmy Savile in its Exposure strand, which detailed allegations of sexual misconduct against Jimmy Savile, who had died the previous year. Accounts included an accusation against Glitter, who was alleged to have raped a 13- or 14-year-old girl in Savile's BBC dressing room. On 28 October, Glitter was arrested and questioned by police in London as part of Operation Yewtree.[105] Glitter was released on police bail until the middle of December and was bailed again until February.