Former glam rocker and convicted child molester Gary Glitter will be deported back to Britain on Tuesday after being released from prison in Vietnam, his lawyer said.
Glitter, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, was convicted of obscene acts with children in March 2006 and sentenced to three long time in prison house. The incidents involved 2 Vietnamese girls, aged 10 and 11, from the southern coastal city of Vung Tau.
"Police booked his ticket from Ho Chi Minh City to London and I have already paid for the ticket on his behalf," his lawyer Le Thanh Kinh told The Associated Press by telephone Thursday.
Last year authorities cut three months off Glitter's three-year pokey sentence for good behaviour. He has been service of process his condition at Thu Duc prison house in Binh Thuan state, 87 miles north of Ho Chi Minh City.
Kinh said Glitter told him several months ago he did not want to go back to Great Britain, simply Vietnamese natural law requires he be returned to his home country.
In a recent interview with the Cong An Nhan Dan (People's Police) paper, Glitter aforementioned he intends to re-start his singing career and might incite to Singapore or Hong Kong.
Glitter was convicted in Britain in 1999 of possessing tyke pornography, and served half of a four-month clink term.
He later went to Cambodia simply was expelled from that country in 2002, although officials at that place did not specify a crime or file charges against him.
Glitter hit his musical extremum in the 1970s. His crowd-pleasing anthem "Rock and Roll (Part 2)" is still played at many sporting events.
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