Paedophile Gary Glitter boasted that a holiday to Asia where he abused girls was ‘the time of his life’, a health worker has revealed.
The woman in her 30s, who cared for the shamed singer while he was having a knee operation at a hospital in Dorset in 2022, said he showed no remorse.
She also said the 80-year-old was really ‘pervy’ with the female staff who were caring for him while he was handcuffed to the bed.
Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was first jailed in 1999 for possessing thousands of indecent images of children.
He then was locked up again for 16 years in 2015 for sexually abusing three schoolgirls between 1975 and 1980.
Glitter was also expelled from Cambodia in 2002 amid reports of sex crime allegations.
Speaking about the time she spent with Glitter, the woman told The Mirror: ‘He tried to make friends with the nurses, talking about being in Cambodia and what a wonderful place it was and how he spent the time of his life there.
‘I felt sick when I found he had been accused of abusing children there.’
Gary Glitter is seen being escorted by police into a courtroom for his appeal hearing in a child molestation case in Vietnam in 2006
Gary Glitter, 79, was jailed in 2015 for sexually abusing three school girls between 1975 and 1980
Gary Glitter, with his face covered with a scarf, leaves the Phnom Penh police department in Cambodia after collecting his passport
‘You would of thought he would have felt guilty about it but he was saying it was the best time of his life. It was chilling,’ she added.
Four years after he was kicked Cambodia, Glitter was convicted of sexually abusing two girls, aged ten and 11, in Vietnam and spent two and a half years in jail.
He escaped serious charges of child rape — which carried a death sentence — and returned to the UK in 2008.
The offences for which he was jailed in 2015 came to light as part of Operation Yewtree – the Metropolitan Police investigation launched in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal.
He was forced to sign the sex offenders’ register, but he was arrested once again in 2012 at his multi-million-pound home in Westminster.
Police would later describe him as a ‘habitual sexual predator who took advantage of the star status afforded to him’.
In 2015 he was convicted of attempted rape, four counts of indecent assault and one of having sex with a girl under 13 in the 1970s and 1980s.
The 80-year-old was automatically released from HMP The Verne – a low-security prison in Portland, Dorset – in February 2023 after serving half of his sentence.
But just six weeks after walking free, he was dramatically taken back for breaching his licence conditions by allegedly viewing downloaded images of children.
And he’s remained inside since March 2023, having been refused bail in February 2024 when it was determined he remains a risk to children, who he had a ‘sexual interest in’.
Disgraced paedophile glam rock star Gary Glitter pictured outside Southwark Crown Court in London in 2015
Gary Glitter performs on the Lift Off TV programme in 1974
Paedophile pop star Gary Glitter arrives at Heathrow Airport from Vietnam in 2008
Earlier this month it was revealed that Glitter will stay in jail for another two years after being told that his application to be released from prison had been rejected.
Glitter’s career grew at exponential rate in the early 1970s after releasing singles including Do You Wanna Touch Me, Rock and Roll, and I’m the Leader of the Gang.
Rock and Roll was Glitter’s breakout song, becoming one of the biggest hits of 1972, reaching number two in the UK charts and in the top ten in the US.
He spent much of the next of the 12 months dominating the top ten, with singles I Didn’t Know I Loved You (Till I Saw You Rock and Roll), Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah), and Hello Hello, I’m Back Again all charting, according to a biography.
Glitter’s first number one came as ‘Glittermania’ peaked in the Summer of 1973 with the release of I’m the Leader of the Gang (I Am).
He then hit number one again in the autumn with I Love You Love Me Love.
By the time Glitter appeared on the charts again in 1984 with Another Rock and Roll Christmas and Dance Me Up, Glitter was playing more than 80 shows a year.
Glitter no longer owns the master rights to his songs — meaning he no longer receives any royalties.
In 2019, his song Rock and Roll Part 2 featured in hit movie The Joker, but rights holders insisted he would not receive any earnings.
