An angry crowd turned up to the bail hostel where the paedophile and former pop star Gary Glitter is staying following his release from prison.
An angry crowd sparked a disturbance at the entrance to Gary Glitter’s halfway house on Sunday afternoon.following his release from prisonOne was heard shouting ‘watch out, Glitter’s in there’ at passers-by, while another tried to scale a fence at the entrance and rattled it while hurling abuse.
Glitter, 79, was freed from low-security HMP Verne, in Portland, on Friday after serving half of his 16-year sentence for sexually abusing three schoolgirls. Richard Scorer of Slater and Gordon said: ‘The early release devalues her suffering and that of his other victims.’
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