Your Worcester
Send your pics, videos and tip-offs to 80360, starting your message WN NEWS followed by a space. Or email us here »
Glitter refused entry to Hong Kong
12:29am Thursday 21st August 2008
Paedophile pop star Gary Glitter has been denied entry into Hong Kong by Chinese authorities after flying to the country from Thailand, the Foreign Office said.
Glitter, who is travelling under his real name Paul Gadd, boarded a Thai Airways flight from Thailand to the city.
In what is becoming a farcical merry-go-round as the disgraced pop star desperately bids to avoid returning to the UK, sources said Chinese authorities were considering returning Glitter to Thailand.
A spokesman for the Foreign Office said: "It is a matter for the Chinese authorities to decide what action they take now."
Immigration police at Hong Kong airport said privacy laws meant they could not comment on Glitter's case.
Glitter had earlier spent more than 20 hours in the transit lounge at Bangkok airport following his release from a Vietnamese prison on Tuesday.
He flew from Ho Chi Minh City to Bangkok and was due to board a connecting flight to Heathrow but refused.
He was refused entry into Thailand and immigration officials said that Glitter would be taken to a detention centre if he continued to refuse to leave the country.
Glitter has served two years and nine months of a three year sentence for abusing two girls aged 10 and 11 in Vietnam.
Editor's choice
Children get a reality check of life in prison
INCREASING numbers of young people are falling into lives of crime.
Winner of Parent Zone’s Snugdowner evening of pampering at Chessgrove Spa, Worcestershire.
C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S!! to the lucky winner of the latest Parent Zone online competition for two Snugdowner treatments at Chessgrove Spa, Worcestershire.
Club was a welcome back for our soldiers
AS a welcome home from the war, it was a touch on the genteel side. After all, when you’d been dodging Hitler’s bombs and bullets for a few years, you could probably have thought of better things to do on your first night back on civvie street than wander down the social club and listen to a bloke playing a violin.
Winter Wonderland at Telford
SANTA Claus, his wife, elves and even reindeer are all to be found now that Telford’s Wonderland attraction has been transformed into Winter Wonderland in the run-up to Christmas.
Postcards from the river that spawned the tourist industry
FOLLOWING their nostalgic meander down Worcestershire’s River Severn though their extensive vintage postcard collection, Jan Dobrzynski and Keith Turner have now urned their attention to Herefordshire’s pretty river Wye.
Beatles' tribute was a treat for all
THE Backbeat Beatles were formed in 1994 by Chris O’Neill (Paul McCartney) and have been hailed as being the closest we can get to witnessing the original Fab Four.
Gary Glitter has been refused entry into Hong Kong
Gary Glitter has been refused entry into Hong Kong
Gary Glitter has been refused entry into Hong Kong
In this section
- Consumer confidence hits record low
- Decision awaited on Olympic funds
- Young Muslims not a threat - study
- Speaker faces MPs after search row
- Whitehall staff reminded of 'code'
- Medic tackles operation by text
- Health workers stage work to rule
- Britons may face more Thai chaos
- Bank considers interest rates cut
Sponsored Links
LOCAL ADVERTISERS
Local Information
Enter your postcode, town or place name
