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Latest Gary Glitter trial begins in London
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 20 January 2015
The latest trial of Gary Glitter, real name Paul Gadd, on child sexual abuse charges began yesterday. The prosecution outlined ten alleged offences against three girls between 1975 and 1980.
Gadd denies all charges against him, though Southwark Crown Court heard that one of the alleged incidents he is accused of was a “clear and unmistakable attempt to rape” a school-age girl.
Prosecutor John Price said that the woman had only come forward when the musician had been arrested after images of child abuse were found on a computer he had taken to be fixed by the Bristol branch of PC World in 1999.
“It seemed to her that recent events in Bristol – as she understood them to be from the publicity – offered a better chance that she might be believed when accusing so famous and popular a man of so dreadful a crime”, said Price, according to the BBC.
