{"id":4955,"date":"2015-02-06T05:56:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T05:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/02\/06\/gary-glitter-convicted-of-sex-crimes\/"},"modified":"2015-02-06T05:56:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T05:56:14","slug":"gary-glitter-convicted-of-sex-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2015\/02\/06\/gary-glitter-convicted-of-sex-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Glitter Convicted of Sex Crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/11\/Gary_Glitter_-_TopPop_1974_5.png\/220px-Gary_Glitter_-_TopPop_1974_5.png\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>A British jury on Thursday (Feb. 5) convicted former glam rock singer Gary Glitter of a string of sex abuse offenses against three young girls in the 1970s. The 70-year-old Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was found  guilty 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.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Paul Gadd has shown himself to be a habitual sexual predator who  took advantage of the star status afforded to him by targeting young  girls who trusted him and were in awe of his fame,&#8221; Det. Chief Insp.  Michael Orchard said.<\/p>\n<p>Orchard added that Glitter&#8217;s &#8220;lack of remorse and defense that the  victims were lying makes his crimes all the more indefensible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Glitter was convicted by a jury of five men and seven women at a  London court after a two-week trial. He blew kisses to a public gallery  full of reporters as he was remanded in custody.<\/p>\n<p>He will be sentenced on Feb. 27. The maximum sentence in Britain for unlawful sex with a minor is life imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>The singer was arrested in October 2012 under Operation Yewtree, the  national investigation that police launched in the wake of a child abuse  scandal surrounding the late BBC entertainer Jimmy Savile.<\/p>\n<p>Glitter&#8217;s career peaked in the early 1970s. He is best known for  &#8220;Rock &amp; Roll (Part 2),&#8221; a hit in both the U.S. and Britain. He fell  into disgrace after being convicted and imprisoned on child abuse  charges in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: Billboard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British jury on Thursday (Feb. 5) convicted former glam rock singer Gary Glitter of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}