Gary Glitter charged with "engading in perverse activities with children"

November 26, 2005 8:04 PM

Gary Glitter charged with "engaging in perverse activities with children in Vietnam" Gary says "I was teaching, not screwing". He has had some problems in the past...
posted by super_not (34 comments total)

hey!
posted by mr.curmudgeon at 8:18 PM on November 26, 2005

Hang the pedo!
posted by cillit bang at 8:20 PM on November 26, 2005

He should be put on trial for that godawful shirt. Gross.
posted by tweak at 8:29 PM on November 26, 2005

Well, he IS Gary Glitter...
posted by Samizdata at 8:33 PM on November 26, 2005

The real crime is that someone who wrote a song that goes, "Na na na na, HEY" can still get residual checks 20 years later.
posted by Saucy Intruder at 8:40 PM on November 26, 2005

rock and roll, part two!
posted by neckro23 at 8:45 PM on November 26, 2005

You know, when comeback-attempt publicity stunts begin to involve extended stays in a third-world, communist clink, it's time to consider the practical importance of that comeback. Nah nah nah nah, indeed.
posted by squirrel at 8:50 PM on November 26, 2005

Apparently he is so far out of touch with reality that he thought by going to the Third World, he could return to his old child-loving ways and get away with it What a dolt. I hope he enjoys spending the rest of his life in a Vietnamese prison. I'm sure that will be a positive experience.

Oh, and Slade was way better.
posted by Ber at 9:12 PM on November 26, 2005

This is rock and roll.
posted by justgary at 9:23 PM on November 26, 2005

Uh, Ber? a charge that carries the death penalty on conviction ... I don't think it's the life in jail he's worried about ...
posted by kaemaril at 9:26 PM on November 26, 2005

The charge that carries a death penalty on conviction is child rape, which Glitter hasn't been charged with (yet...) The "formal charge is engaging in perverse activities with children", which has a maximum sentence of 12 years according to the first link, 16 years according to the third.
posted by Pigpen at 11:36 PM on November 26, 2005

I taught English in Vietnam, and I can tell you first hand that every white guy over thirty there is totally weird.
posted by borkingchikapa at 12:36 AM on November 27, 2005

Is it time to change the posting guidelines to "The Rest of the Web" yet?
posted by srboisvert at 1:33 AM on November 27, 2005

Coming soon to a theatre near you ... a tale of unspeakable horror!

Gary Glitter stars in ... The Babysitter ...
posted by bwg at 2:40 AM on November 27, 2005

The real crime is that someone who wrote a song that goes

Never mind that one. What about the one that goes:

Do you wanna touch?
(Yeah!)
Do you wanna touch?
(Yeah!)
Do you wanna touch me there?
(Yeah!)
Do you wanna touch?
(Yeah!)
Do you wanna touch?
(Yeah!)
Do you wanna touch me there? Where? There!
(Yeah!)
(Oh! Yeah! Oh yeah!)
(Oh oh yeah!)
(Oh yeah! Oh yeah!)

Grooming by mass media?
posted by PeterMcDermott at 3:15 AM on November 27, 2005

I love this:

He also told the Thanh Nien newspaper that all the girls previously told him they were older than 20, because, apparently he’s not about teaching minors new language skills.

Gary, you've gotta pick a defense: either you were screwing them (in which case you definitely want to stick to the older-than-20 line) or you were teaching them (in which case it sounds pretty bizarre).
posted by languagehat at 4:16 AM on November 27, 2005

I taught English in Vietnam, and I can tell you first hand that every white guy over thirty there is totally weird.
posted by lowest.common.denominator at 5:45 AM on November 27, 2005

Rock and Roll part 1 had lyrics though!! I kid you not!
posted by wheelieman at 6:06 AM on November 27, 2005

Pigpen: Yeah, I saw that. I mentioned that the higher charge carried the death penalty, not the life sentence bit, because even for somebody Gary Glitter's age (in his sixties, iirc) 16 years for the lesser charge need not be the life in prison that Ber thought he ought to be appreciating :)
posted by kaemaril at 7:51 AM on November 27, 2005

all the girls previously told him they were older than 20

I dunno, the older I get the younger people look not the other way round.
posted by scheptech at 8:09 AM on November 27, 2005

posted by meehawl at 9:46 AM on November 27, 2005

Errr, sorry about the blocker!
posted by meehawl at 9:47 AM on November 27, 2005

Oh sure, it's easy to castigate pedophiles. It's easy to pile on negative comments about talentless musicians. We can all make fun of his clothes or his hairstyle or his intelligence in choosing such a facile defense. And it's easy to laugh that he will be spending 12 years or more in jail.
posted by Smedleyman at 11:07 AM on November 27, 2005

What...I'm just sayin' it's easy.
posted by Smedleyman at 11:08 AM on November 27, 2005

it's easy

All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love—love is all you need.
posted by languagehat at 11:28 AM on November 27, 2005

Gary Glitter Fan Club

The singer had always denied four counts of indecently assaulting a girl in the early 1980s when she was under 16. He also denied four charges of serious sexual assault against the same girl, who is now 34 and married with children. After the verdict the Press Complaints Commission said it would investigate revelations that a newspaper paid the woman who made the allegations ... Gary Glitter, charged under his real name, Paul Gadd, smiled as the not guilty verdict was greeted by cheers in the public gallery. He turned to the jury, put his hands together and said "thank you".

Neighbors on Monday said they were surprised to read the allegations against Glitter in the newspaper. They said the only problem they ever had with him was that he sometimes brought home friends to his oceanside villa and sang songs too loudly. "Before this, I never suspected him" of doing anything he's accused of, said Tran Cong Khanh, 48. "I thought he just liked children."
posted by meehawl at 11:48 AM on November 27, 2005

Nice how he paid them $10 per fuck session.
guess the royalties aren't so spectacular on whatever the fuck song he did before these girls were born.
posted by Busithoth at 11:51 AM on November 27, 2005

borkingchikapa, I spent a month there a couple of years ago, and I totally second that - if by weird you mean alcoholic, paedophilic or psychotic - or a combination of those...
posted by runkelfinker at 11:54 AM on November 27, 2005

Vietnamese girl, 12, says rocker Gary Glitter gave her 150,000 dong for sex

There's a headline for ya.
posted by dhartung at 12:11 PM on November 27, 2005

I heard somewhere that he sold the rights to Rock and Roll, Part II and recieves no residuals anymore.
posted by Dagobert at 9:32 PM on November 27, 2005

I taught English in Vietnam, and I can tell you first hand that every white guy over thirty there is totally weird.

I have several white male friends in Vietnam, none of whom are "totally weird". There are without doubt a high number of dubious Western men in the area, but to paint them all in such childish terms does an injustice to those people who are working in the area to help develop the country with the best of motivations and intentions. But of course borkingchikapa's teen-aged observations on the area, apparently gathered over a few weeks faithfully following the backpacker circuit, Lonely Planet clutched nervously in hand, are suspect to begin with.
posted by soiled cowboy at 9:53 PM on November 27, 2005

I taught English in Vietnam, and I can tell you first hand that every white guy over thirty there is totally weird.

I spent a month there a couple of years ago, and I totally second that

I'm curious why the age of 30 is chosen?
posted by the cuban at 4:12 AM on November 28, 2005

I hear they've banned tinsel in Vietnam this christmas. They're going to hang glitter instead.
posted by bonaldi at 11:10 AM on November 28, 2005

Nice, bonaldi!

But whatever happened to Rock and Roll, Part 1?
posted by etoile at 6:55 PM on December 2, 2005