Disgraced paedophile pop star Gary Glitter is being sent back to prison after a breach of his licence conditions.

The 78-year-old was convicted of a series of sexual offences in 2015 and sentenced to 16 years in prison, but he was released on February 3, 2023 after serving half his term.

Now Glitter - whose real name is Paul Gadd - is being returned to custody just over a month after his release.

Glitter is being returned to prison on Monday, following a breach of his licence conditions, and his re-release will be a matter for the Parole Board.

Commenting on his return to custody, a Probation Service spokesperson said: “Protecting the public is our number one priority. That’s why we set tough licence conditions and when offenders breach them, we don’t hesitate to return them to custody.”

The sex offender was at the height of his fame when he preyed on his victims, who thought no-one would believe their claims because of his celebrity status.

He attacked two girls, aged 12 and 13, after inviting them backstage to his dressing room and isolating them from their mothers.

His third victim was less than 10 years old when he crept into her bed and tried to rape her in 1975.

The allegations only came to light nearly 40 years later when Glitter became the first person to be arrested under Operation Yewtree – the investigation launched by the Metropolitan Police in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal.

His fall from grace occurred years earlier after he admitted possessing 4,000 child pornography images and was jailed for four months in 1999.

In 2002, he was expelled from Cambodia amid reports of sex crime allegations, and in March 2006 he was convicted of sexually abusing two girls, aged 10 and 11, in Vietnam and spent two-and-a-half years in jail.