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‘Dangerous’ Gary Glitter was housed in bail hostel with six convicted child sex abusers, ex-Scotland Yard boss reveals
FORMER pop star Gary Glitter was released to a bail hostel where there were six other convicted child sex abusers, it has emerged.
Glitter, real name Paul Gadd, was returned to prison yesterday after The Sun on Sunday revealed a film of him using a mobile at a hostel.
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And Mike Hames, former head of Scotland Yard's Paedophile Unit, has revealed that Glitter was in a hostel with about six convicted child sex abusers who've been released on licence.
, Mr Hames said: "He was put into the bail hostel where I think there were 17 men in all, and about six of them were convicted child sex abusers who've been released on licence.
"What that does is to put them in a position where they can talk to each other, talk about what they've done in the past, share their fantasies and essentially plot what they're going to do next.
"And so that does raise certain concerns. They're going to talk about the thing that they're completely obsessed by, and that's having sex with children."
It comes after the disturbing footage, obtained by The Sun on Sunday, shows Glitter discussing which search engines to use and referring to accessing the Dark Web.
In the video, he asks a pal: “Shall I get rid of this Duck Duck?”
His friend replies: “Yeah, I wouldn’t bother using that if I were you.”
His reference to “Duck Duck” is understood to mean search engine DuckDuckGo, which advertises itself as protecting users’ privacy.
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The footage resulted in Gadd's recall to prison.
Police are now trawling through the phone to establish if the former pop star looked at Dark Web content after it was sent to the Probation Office.
Mr Hames said Gadd will "always be a danger to children" and will "probably die in prison".
"As far as Gadd is concerned, he is so dangerous, he's so fixated on his offending behaviour that he'll never stop. He's gone too far.
"And he's arrogant, he's opinionated. He didn't plead guilty for a start. When he was in prison he took no part in the offender management programmes.
"He's somebody who is always going to be a danger to children, quite frankly."
"Here was a case where if anybody was going to be sentenced to an indeterminate sentence, it would have been him.
"So I have no doubt he'll serve the next eight years of his sentence. He'll probably die in prison."
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The Probation Service confirmed Glitter’s recall, saying: “Protecting the public is our priority.
“That’s why we set tough licence conditions and when offenders breach them, we don’t hesitate to return them to custody.”
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