Gary Glitter bankrupt after refusing to pay £500,000 to woman he abused
Convicted sex offender Gary Glitter is bankrupt after failing to pay £500,000 in damages to one of his victims.
The woman sued Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, in 2015 for abusing her when she was a 12-year-old girl, as well as two other young people between 1975 and 1980.
The sum includes £381,000 in lost earnings and £7,800 for future therapy and treatment.
Richard Scorer, head of abuse law at Slater and Gordon, representing the woman, said: ‘We confirm that Gadd has been made bankrupt following our client’s application.
‘As he has done throughout, Gadd has refused to cooperate with the process and continues to treat his victims with contempt.
‘We hope and trust that the parole board will take his behaviour into account in any future parole applications, as it clearly demonstrates that he has never changed, shows no remorse and remains a serious risk to the public.’
The court heard that the woman had not worked for decades due to the trauma of being repeatedly raped and ‘humiliated’ by the disgraced singer, who is now 80.
Judge Mrs Justice Tipples said Gadd had subjected his victim ‘to sexual abuse of the most serious kind’.
The judge said the woman had not been able to find ‘any meaningful employment throughout her life’ as a result, and awarded her damages for complex psychological therapy and treatment and loss of earnings.
She said: ‘Her education was ruined and she has suffered severe psychiatric injury for the rest of her life.’
Glitter was put behind bars in 2015 for 16 years after sexually abusing three schoolgirls.
His sentence will end in February 2031.
Glitter was automatically released from HMP The Verne, a low-security prison in Portland, Dorset, in February 2023.
He had served half of his fixed-term determinate sentence but was imprisoned less than six weeks after walking free.
This was after police monitoring showed he had breached his licence conditions by reportedly trying to access the dark web and viewing downloaded images of children.
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