Shamed paedophile pop star Gary Glitter ordered to pay £508,000 to one of his victims in High Court ruling that could cost him millions

Gary Glitter was today ordered to pay more than £500,000 in compensation to a victim who sued him in the High Court.

The woman is taking legal action against Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, following his conviction in 2015 for abusing her and two other young people between 1975 and 1980.

She previously obtained a ‘default judgment’ in her claim – a ruling in her favor over Glitter’s liability – and today Mrs Justice Tipples said the woman was entitled to £508,800 in damages.

Mrs Justice Tipples said the woman had taken legal action after being repeatedly raped and sexually assaulted by Glitter, as well as being ‘humiliated and forcibly controlled’ by the singer.

In a 13-page ruling, she added: ‘There is no doubt that the plaintiff was subjected to sexual abuse of the most serious kind by the defendant when she was only twelve years old, which has had very significant negative consequences had for the rest of her life. to live.’

The judge said the six-figure sum includes £381,000 in lost income and £7,800 for future therapy and treatment.

A hearing is expected today at which any interest on damages and legal costs will be discussed. Since Glitter’s violations are decades old, this could push the amount he has to pay into the millions.

Pedophile pop star Gary Glitter was today ordered by a High Court judge to pay £508,800 in damages to one of the women he abused

Glitter’s fall from grace began in the late 1990s when he was convicted of possessing thousands of child abuse images and jailed for four months in 1999. He was seen in 1974

Mrs Justice Tipples said the victim had suffered ‘psychological harm and losses’ as a result of Glitter’s abuse.

The judge said: ‘The claimant said that she was completely ashamed and that she scrubbed herself in the bath every day, occasionally using a pumice stone to ‘scrub her face off’, and did not care what she looked like. . The plaintiff just didn’t want to look like himself.

“Plaintiff did not tell anyone in her family what happened to her because she was afraid she would shame everyone and she thought her family would not love her anymore if they knew.”

At a hearing in March, the High Court in London heard that the woman – who cannot be named for legal reasons – has not been able to work for decades.

Her lawyer Jonathan Metzer said Glitter’s abuse had a “dramatic and terrible impact” on her education, work and personal relationships.

Glitter, 80, was sentenced to 16 years in prison in 2015 for sexually assaulting three schoolgirls. His sentence expires in February 2031.

He was automatically released from HMP The Verne, a low-security prison in Portland, Dorset, in February last year after serving half his stipulated sentence.

The woman first met him at a concert in Birmingham in 1977, when she was twelve.

She and her mother were invited to the pop star’s hotel the next night.

Court documents state: ‘The defendant plied them with champagne and when he got hold of the plaintiff alone and away from her mother, the plaintiff was sexually assaulted by the defendant.

‘He held her head, pushed her neck back and started kissing her. She touched his hair and at that moment he went crazy because no one was allowed to touch his hair. He then stuck his tongue in her mouth and told her to undress.”

Glitter then repeatedly raped the girl, who was picked up by her mother the next morning, court documents show. She was later invited back to his London home and subjected to further rapes and assaults.

A psychologist who approached the plaintiff before her trial said she suffered from “flashbacks and nightmares” and extreme behavior including “manic cleaning.” She also has difficulty leaving her home.

The 80-year-old is said to have resigned to dying behind bars after his final parole hearing was rejected

Glitter photographed in 2007 in Vietnam, where he served three years in prison on child abuse charges

Glitter was put back behind bars less than six weeks after being at large when police surveillance revealed he had breached his license conditions by allegedly trying to access the dark web and view downloaded images of children.

He is said to have accepted last month that he would die in prison after losing a parole hearing. He told his fellow inmates that he fears he will not be released before the end of his sentence in 2031.

A source said: ‘He is still blaming everyone for his situation, instead of accepting that it is his fault.’

“Glitter is really down and complaining about his situation,” they told the Sun.

‘He said, ‘I’m going to die in prison now,’ and he’s resigned himself to it. He would be almost 87 by the time his sentence ends and knows the effect being indoors can have on your health.’

While the sex offender could apply for parole again, people close to the situation added that it would “probably be denied because he hasn’t changed.”

Glitter was at the height of his fame when he preyed on his victims, who thought no one would believe their claims due to his celebrity status.

He attacked two girls, aged 12 and 13, after luring them backstage to his dressing room and isolating them from their mothers.

His third victim was not yet ten years old when he crawled into her bed in 1975 and tried to rape her.

Glitter was sent back to prison last year, just a month after he was spotted using a mobile phone in his bail hostel to allegedly access the dark web

The allegations against Glitter only came to light almost forty years later when the star became the first person to be arrested as part of Operation Yewtree – an investigation launched by the Metropolitan Police in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal.

Glitter’s fall from grace began in the late 1990s when he was convicted of possessing thousands of child abuse images and jailed for four months in 1999.

In 2002 he was expelled from Cambodia over reports of allegations of sex crimes, and in March 2006 he was convicted of sexually assaulting two girls aged ten and eleven in Vietnam and spent two and a half years in prison.

Ahead of his final parole hearing – which was denied two weeks ago – Glitter was accused of having a “complete lack of remorse” towards his victims.

Richard Scorer, head of abuse law at Slater & Gordon, who is acting on behalf of the woman in this case, said after the verdict: ‘In this ruling the court has rightly recognized the appalling abuse suffered by my client.

“While no amount of money can compensate for the horrific sexual abuse, the award is at least a way to acknowledge the devastation my client caused throughout her childhood and adult life.

“Gadd’s refusal to participate in the trial only demonstrates his complete lack of remorse, something we will remind the parole board of when he reapplies for parole.

“We will pursue Gadd for payment and will continue to support our customer throughout this process.”

HMP The Verne in Portland, Dorset, where Glitter is serving his prison sentence