Gary Glitter can't catch a break

[jobotic]

You know what - I bet he wishes he hadn't taken his laptop into PC World that day!!!

Then he'd have been sitting in front of a broken laptop for 26 years!

Give the guy a break.

[PaulTMA]

He probably had Weezer's Buddy Holly video on there as well

[Butchers Blind]

huh it was a laptop! I always assumed it was a desktop. in 1997 it must have been a very chunky thinkpad, with room for not much else after 54 indecent photographs of children under 16 on its HDD (which cant have been more than 1 GB capacity)

In November 1997, Glitter was arrested after a technician discovered pornographic images of children on the hard drive of a laptop that he had taken to a computer retailer in Bristol to be repaired. At Bristol Crown Court on 12 November 1999, Mr Justice Butterfield sentenced Glitter to four months in prison and placed him on the sex offender register in the UK after he admitted downloading more than 4,000 items of child pornography

Not sure you could get that amount of child abuse images on a laptop back then. But yes.

[Blumf]

What was the issue with his computer, and did they fix it?

[Sebastian Cobb]

When you think about it's pretty mad that he's technically inept enough to send that computer back to pc world yet he's been in and out of chokey as computer technology rapidly developed to the point it's barely recognisable yet he's straight out of jail and offending again without so much as a training course at the local library.

[Butchers Blind]

What was the issue with his computer, and did they fix it?

I would think it was the amount of pics on his hard drive ironically.

[idunnosomename]

Not sure you could get that amount of child abuse images on a laptop back then. But yes.

54 charges of images here

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/nov/12/simonjeffery1

wonder if the 4000 is including video frames?

[Alberon]

Don't they usually just go for the worst images and the rest is 'left on file'.

To have 4000 images 25 years ago in the dial-up era takes some perseverance.

[buzby]

Not sure you could get that amount of child abuse images on a laptop back then. But yes.

Back in the days of limited disk space and dialup, there were still a lot of 256-colour GIF images around (having originated in the BBS era), and JPEGs were altra-compressed and low res (most people's graphics cards and monitors were only capable of 1024x768, or 1280x1024 at a stretch).

A 'big' JPEG of that era was about 200kb, so 4000 images would be about 800Mb. A laptop of that era would have a 1-3Gb 2.5" IDE disk.

[Cold Meat Platter]

He should have kept the images on Iomega Zip disks.

[DrGreggles]

So nearly in Spice World.

If he'd gone to PC World just a few days later he'd have taken them down with him.

[Ferris]

So nearly in Spice World.

If he'd gone to PC World just a few days later he'd have taken them down with him.

"Baby Spice" so-named of course because she often [redacted].

[monkfromhavana]

Don't they usually just go for the worst images and the rest is 'left on file'.

To have 4000 images 25 years ago in the dial-up era takes some perseverance.

He was dedicated, you have to give him that.

[Butchers Blind]

Even the worst have some redeeming qualities.

[studpuppet]

So nearly in Spice World.

If he'd gone to PC World just a few days later he'd have taken them down with him.

Immortalised here:

[studpuppet]

Don't they usually just go for the worst images and the rest is 'left on file'.

To have 4000 images 25 years ago in the dial-up era takes some perseverance.

Maybe he got them off those CD-ROMs they gave away free on the front of Paedo Monthly?

[non capisco]

Remember early on in his trial for the PC World laptop thing and he was turning up to the court in full wig, jumping out of the car and posing? You're on trial for being a paedo, mate, not about to wow the matinee crowd at Butlins.

[imitationleather]

What was the issue with his computer, and did they fix it?

It was unable to download normal legal porn.

[idunnosomename]

His laptop was one of those where the mouse cursor was a nipple in centre of the keyboard, itturned him into a pervert

[robhug]

Its a fair point about image size and HDD capacity back when he got done over by PC World, there couldn't have been much else on it but kiddie porn.

I've long surmised he had another laptop purely for business which was the one that actually had the problem but as they were identical there was a tragic mix up which he only realised when he'd unzipped on his chaise lounge. One simple mistake was all it took to being down a musical behemoth.

[Huxleys Babkins]

Remember early on in his trial for the PC World laptop thing and he was turning up to the court in full wig, jumping out of the car and posing? You're on trial for being a paedo, mate, not about to wow the matinee crowd at Butlins.

Always putting on a show for the punters. You can't teach that, the man's a natural.

[Fambo Number Mive]

Won't he be on the nonce wing? Who's going to kill him? Another nonce?

These men have committed horrific crimes but they were never charged with hypocrisy.

I don't think its just sex offenders who go on VP wings. I don't know much about prison but I think people in debt to other prisoners can go on it, for example.

[dissolute ocelot]

Is he still a rich man? Or would he have to live in council sheltered housing with a home help twice a week if he got out? Can't imagine there's much difference between that and the paedo wing. I'm guessing his extensive license conditions when released would prevent him leaving the country or doing much else with his time (could they ban him from the internet entirely and stop him getting broadband or a phone?) so he may as well be in jail.

[imitationleather]

He still gets royalties from his music being played at American sports events.

[Butchers Blind]

Those yanks love our olde english paedos.

[shiftwork2]

Leicester Square fans will remember Gary's Glitter Bar where he styled himself as Leader Of The Snack.  It was 1993 in Paul's before times.  There's an eyewitness video of opening day here and he come out Stew at 6m35s.  I often find this useful to meditate to.

[Ignatius_S]

He still gets royalties from his music being played at American sports events.

It's been well documented about such usage has been in decline at such music.

This article - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/gary-glitter-may-still-profit-joker-sync-not-owning-song-1248255/ - discusses that and also about how Glitter has previously sold his recording and publishing rights to Rock and Roll Part II; although this automatically does not remove all income from it, as there are potetially performance royalties.

It's no secret "Rock and Roll Part II" has been a sports-stadium favorite for decades. The National Football League effectively banned stadiums from playing the song after Glitter's 2006 conviction, but the rule hasn't always held strong: After Glitter's version was banned by the NFL in 2006, a cover version was still used and even adopted as the New England Patriots' touchdown anthem. Just days before the Super Bowl in 2012, the league had to rush to prevent the Patriots from using the song during the big game. No such bans have been established by the National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball or the National Hockey League.

Although as it says, other sports associations haven't banned it, the use of the song has been decreasing.

[jamiefairlie]

"Gadd, 79, was automatically released from prison in February 2023, halfway through a 16-year sentence – but was recalled just six weeks later for allegedly viewing downloaded images of children."

Christ almighty, he's like the peado 8 Ace.

[daf]

Leicester Square fans will remember Gary's Glitter Bar where he styled himself as Leader Of The Snack.  It was 1993 in Paul's before times.  There's an eyewitness video of opening day here and he come out Stew at 6m35s.  I often find this useful to meditate to.

I'm the Leader of the Spam (ahh, yum!)
Rock (Salmon) & (Bread) Roll 
Hello, Hello I'm Back Again (for second helpings)

[jamiefairlie]

"I only want to nonce you Ro-land"