Gary Glitter is likely to die behind bars after being convicted yesterday of sex attacks on three schoolgirls.
The 70-year-old former glam rocker’s final downfall came amid outrage that he was granted legal aid to fight the case, despite being wealthy enough to rent a £2million London home and receiving an estimated £300,000 a year in royalties.
Child abuse charities said it was a ‘disgrace’ that the prolific sex offender was able to plead poverty and use tens of thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money to hire a top QC.
But yesterday a jury took just two days to convict him of one count of attempted rape, four counts of indecent assault and one count of sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of 13 at the height of his fame in the 1970s and 1980s.
He attacked two girls, aged 12 and 13, after inviting them backstage to his dressing room and hotel suites, where the champagne flowed before he forced them to have sex with him or molested them when their mothers left.
Glitter’s youngest victim was only eight when he crept into her bed and tried to rape her in 1975. Now it can be revealed that Glitter faces a fresh police quiz over new allegations. A source close to the inquiry said police were ‘assessing new information’ which emerged during the trial.