Pop singer, Gary Glitter, has been sentenced to four months in jail after pleading guilty to 54 charges of making indecent photographs of children under sixteen. The singer had admitted downloading indecent photographs of children on his home computer. The judge at Bristol Crown Court said the sentences should run concurrently. He will be put on a sex offenders register after he leaves jail. The child pornography charges came after a member of staff spotted the material when Glitter took his computer for repair and contacted the police.
The news follows his acquittal today of the sexual assault of an underage girl, in the 1980s. He was cleared at Bristol Crown Court of all eight charges of sexually assaulting an underage teenage fan. The 55-year-old singer was charged under his real name, Paul Francis Gadd, with four counts of indecently assaulting a girl in the early 1980s when she was under-16.
