Glitter launches fresh bid for freedom

Published on Saturday 7 April 2007 00:35

GARY Glitter, jailed in Vietnam for sexually molesting two young girls, plans to seek an amnesty during Vietnam's Liberation Day celebrations this month, his lawyer has said.

Glitter, 62, is due for release in August next year after an earlier bid for amnesty saw his sentence of nearly three years jail cut by three months.

"My client will certainly seek an amnesty this time but it is still up to the president to decide if he would be released," lawyer Le Thanh Kinh said in Ho Chi Minh City.

He said the government had not announced an amnesty to mark the 30 April anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, but such gestures were often made around major national holidays.

The 1970s glam rocker, whose hits include Rock and Roll and Do You Wanna Touch Me, denied molesting the 11-year-old girls while living in the southern resort town of Vung Tau.

Glitter, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, was convicted last year.