'Broke' paedophile Gary Glitter's debt to victim rises £110k

Gary Glitter now owes more than £600,000 to a woman he raped when she was 12. The total includes £110,000 in interest on the damages which the paedophile rocker has refused to pay the survivor of his abuse. Glitter, 82, real name Paul Gadd, claimed to be penniless when he was ordered to pay the woman £508,000 in June 2024. But at the same time he transferred £138,000 to his son, also called Paul, 61, which was later returned. He was declared bankrupt last year after failing to hand over the compensation and the woman’s lawyers are now trying to seize his assets. Court papers obtained by the Daily Mirror reveal the total he now owes her stands at £618,000, up by £110,000 due to interest. Investigators have been given another year to search for Glitter's assets after a judge last week extended his bankruptcy period for a year. Legal proceedings by the victim revealed the rocker has at least £988,891 in royalties since 1996. Her lawyers are trying to seize his assets. Glitter, real name Paul Gadd, was released from prison in 2023, halfway through a 16-year sentence for sexually abusing three girls. But he was recalled to jail within weeks for breaching licence conditions by allegedly downloading images of children. Glitter was declared bankrupt last year after not handing over the compensation. Judge CJ Taylor at Bristol county court allowed the bankruptcy to be extended for a year after finding Glitter lied when he claimed he had no assets. Mr Taylor said: "It has become quite clear that there are assets." He said they include "significant funds" in an account in his name between 2006 and 2008, and transfers to a Swiss bank. The trustees in the bankruptcy said "attempts have been made to divert" the paedophile's assets from his estate, including requests that his pension payments go to his son. The pair were said to have fallen out after Glitter was first convicted of child sex offences in 1999. But prison logs show Paul occasionally visits his dad in HMP Channings Wood, not far from his Devon home. Glitter said all his income, including royalty payments, has gone into Machmain Limited since 1989. He transferred his shares in the firm to a Caribbean tax haven firm in 2005, a month after being arrested in Vietnam for child sex offences. In November 2023, Machmain paid off a mortgage on his £2million, sixth-floor flat in a Victorian mansion block in Central London. Mr Taylor said the rental from the property and its current value are "lines of inquiry the trustees can investigate". Paul, now 61, became a director on Machmain's board in October. Glitter's music was in the 2019 film Joker, regularly played at US ice hockey games, and Oasis used one of his lyrics. His son's lawyer did not respond to repeated requests for comment.