Gary Glitter appeals child sex charges

[KiwiCoromandel]

Former British "glam rocker" Gary Glitter, convicted and jailed in Vietnam for molesting children, will challenge the prosecution's evidence during an appeal hearing, his lawyer said.

Glitter, 62, will appear in the People's Supreme Court of communist-run Vietnam following his March 3 conviction and sentencing to three years in prison for committing sexual acts with two 11-year-old girls. Glitter avoided the more serious charge of child rape, which carries the death penalty in Vietnam.

The closed hearing will be on Thursday morning and the decision announced in the afternoon, court officials said.

"He's in good shape and quite happy and hopeful of an advantage at the appeal," Glitter's Vietnamese lawyer Le Thanh Kinh said in an interview in his Ho Chi Minh City office.

"We are not excluding the possibility that his sentence would be deportation and cut his jail term."

The Briton, who rose to fame in the 1970s with a bouffant hairstyle and several pop hits, including Rock and Roll and I'm the Leader of the Gang (I Am), maintains he was the victim of a British tabloid newspaper conspiracy.

Kinh said his client would challenge the charges because he believes the evidence was given by the media and was groundless.

Glitter has been imprisoned in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau since last November. He was arrested at Ho Chi Minh City airport in November 2005 while trying to leave Vietnam.

On March 3, the faded pop star was found guilty after a one-day, closed trial of molesting two 11-year-old girls in the resort town of Vung Tau. The judge said the singer would be deported from Vietnam after serving the sentence.

source:AP

[moonglow]

sounds like he's in a heep of shit

[rainbowdemon]

[moonglow]

[Redneck4sure]

:happy:

[method77]

:chainsaw:

[KiwiCoromandel]

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[method77]

his appeal was overthrown

[Redneck4sure]

:)

[Meehowski]

B)

[KiwiCoromandel]

his appeal was overthrown

good fucking job!!!