Gary Glitter has been declared bankrupt after failing to settle more than £500,000 in damages to a woman he abused when she was 12 years old.
She sued the disgraced singer, whose real name is Paul Gadd, after he was convicted of assaulting her and two other schoolgirls between 1975 and 1980.
Glitter, 80, was sentenced to 16 years in prison in 2015 and released in 2023, only to be returned to prison less than six weeks later for violating his parole terms.
A judge granted the woman £508,800, which includes £381,000 for lost earnings and £7,800 for future therapy and treatment, stating that she endured abuse «of the gravest nature».
The court revealed that she had been unable to work for many years due to the trauma of being repeatedly raped and «humiliated» by the singer.
Glitter’s bankruptcy was finalized last month at the County Court at Torquay and Newton Abbot, in Devon – the county where he is believed to be serving his sentence in Channings Wood prison, in Newton Abbot.
Richard Scorer, head of abuse law at Slater and Gordon, the law firm representing the woman, stated: «We confirm that Gadd has been declared bankrupt following our client’s petition.
«Consistently, Gadd has refused to cooperate with the process and continues to show contempt towards his victims.
«We hope and trust that the parole board will consider his conduct in any future parole requests, as it clearly indicates that he has not changed, displays no remorse, and poses a significant risk to the public.»
Glitter was initially imprisoned for four months in 1999 after admitting to possessing approximately 4,000 indecent images of children.
He was deported from Cambodia in 2002 and in March 2006, he was convicted of sexually assaulting two girls, aged 10 and 11, in Vietnam, where he spent two and a half years in prison.
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His sentence for the 2016 convictions expires in February 2031.
Glitter was automatically released from HMP The Verne, a low-security prison in Portland, Dorset, in February 2023 after serving half of his fixed-term determinate sentence.
However, he was back in custody weeks later after allegedly attempting to access the dark web and images of children.