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Jury In Gary Glitter Sex Abuse Trial Retires

Jury In Gary Glitter Sex Abuse Trial Retires

The jury in the trial of Gary Glitter has been sent home for the night after retiring to consider its verdicts.

It will return at 10am to continue deliberating over the child sex offences the former glam rock star faces at Southwark Crown Court.

Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, faces 10 charges.

He is accused of attempted rape and an indecent assault on a girl under the age of 13 in 1975.

He is also accused of four counts of indecent assault on a second complainant and of giving the same child alcohol with the intention to "stupefy or overpower" her to have sex with him between January and May of the same year.

It’s also alleged that Gadd had unlawful intercourse with the girl.

The 70-year-old also faces two charges of indecent assault against a third person between October 1979 and December 1980.

He denies all the charges against him.

While giving evidence, Gadd told the court he had no interest in sexually abusing young girls.

He had previously admitted possessing sexual images of children and was jailed for the offence in 1999. The jury were warned by the judge not to allow that to influence their decision in this trial.

Gadd was the first person to be arrested by detectives working on Operation Yewtree, the inquiry which was set up following the Jimmy Savile scandal.