{"id":27862,"date":"2024-06-11T05:34:50","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T09:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=27862"},"modified":"2024-06-11T06:12:45","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T10:12:45","slug":"disgraced-pop-star-gary-glitter-ordered-to-pay-half-a-million-pounds-to-woman-he-abused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2024\/06\/11\/disgraced-pop-star-gary-glitter-ordered-to-pay-half-a-million-pounds-to-woman-he-abused\/","title":{"rendered":"Disgraced pop star Gary Glitter ordered to pay half a million pounds to woman he abused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Glitter has been ordered to pay \u00a3508,800 to a woman he abused when she was 12 years old.<\/p>\n<p>The disgraced singer was jailed for 16 years in 2015 for sexually abusing three schoolgirls between 1975 and 1980.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-component-name=\"sdc-site-outbrain\" data-target=\"\" data-widget-mapping=\"\" data-installation-keys=\"\" data-init=\"true\">\n<p>He was released last year, but recalled to jail six weeks later after breaching his parole conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The woman sued Glitter and now a judge has awarded her the compensation after saying she was subjected to abuse &#8220;of the most serious kind&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The court was told she hadn&#8217;t worked for decades due to the trauma of being repeatedly raped and &#8220;humiliated&#8221; by the singer.<\/p>\n<p>The payout includes \u00a3381,000 for lost earnings and \u00a37,800 for future therapy.<\/p>\n<p>Her barrister said Glitter&#8217;s abuse had a &#8220;dramatic and terrible impact&#8221; on her work, education and personal life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She felt totally ashamed,&#8221; said judge Mrs Justice Tipples.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She would scrub herself in the bath daily and this included, on occasion, using a pumice stone to &#8216;scrub her face off&#8217;, and she did not care what she looked like. The claimant just did not want to look like herself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Glitter, 79, may have to pay even more as another hearing will consider legal fees and whether interest on the damages is due.<\/p>\n<p>The convicted paedophile &#8211; whose real name is Paul Gadd &#8211; was released in February 2023 after serving half his sentence.<\/p>\n<p>But he was back behind bars weeks later after reportedly trying to access the dark web and access images of children.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sky-news-logo-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sky-news-logo-1.png\" alt=\"Sky News\" width=\"100\" height=\"20\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/gary-glitter-disgraced-pop-star-ordered-to-pay-half-a-million-pounds-to-woman-he-abused-13151057\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news.sky.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Gary Glitter has been ordered to pay \u00a3508,800 to a woman he abused when she was 12 years old. 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