He had served most of a three-year sentence for abusing girls.

Glitter, 64, was released at 06:30 CET and is been driven to Ho Chi Min City, where he'll be put on a plane to London.

However there isn't a direct flight and Glitter could buy another ticket at the connecting airport and fly anywhere in the world where an entry visa isn't required.

If he does fly to London he'll be interviewed by Police and he'll sign the sex offenders register which will mean he has to notify police of his movements and the address where he'll be staying. He may also face bans from areas where children congregate and from using the internet.

Sotogrande

Glitter on release from the UK after serving almost a year of a child pornography sentence, set up residence in Sotogrande on his 10m yacht 'Voyageur. He kept a low profile but gradually gained confidence and started to call himself Gary instead of Paul and wore cowboy hats and glitter jackets. He had a red mercedes and a scooter to get around town. He's also spent time in Gibraltar.


Background

Gary Glitter (born Paul Francis Gadd on May 8, 1944) is an English rock and pop singer and songwriter who had a string of chart successes with a collection of 1970s glam rock hits, including "Rock and Roll parts 1 & 2", "I Love You Love Me Love", "I'm the Leader of the Gang (I Am)" and "Hello, Hello, I'm Back Again".

He spent nearly three years in jail in Vietnam for child sexual abuse until he was released in August 2008.

Glitter first came to prominence in the glam rock era of the early 1970s. He had one of the longest chart runs of any solo singer in the UK during the 1970s. Between 1972 and 1995 Glitter charted 26 hit singles which spent a total of 180 weeks in the UK Top 100. His success as a live performer lasted well beyond the decade.

He continued to record in the 1980s and 1990s, with his 1984 song "Another Rock N' Roll Christmas" being one of the Top 30 Christmas hits of all time.
He released seven studio albums, and at least 15 greatest hits collections or live albums. In 1998, his recording of "Rock and Roll" was voted as one of the Top 1001 songs in music history.

In 1999, Glitter was convicted of downloading 4,000 child pornography pictures in the UK, and was afterwards listed as a sex offender. His reputation was greatly tarnished, and though he continued releasing new music, Glitter's popularity declined sharply. He was permanently evicted from Cambodia in 2002 for suspected child sexual abuse offences. He afterwards relocated to Vũng Tàu in Vietnam, and in March 2005 applied for permanent resident status.

Later that year, he was arrested by Vietnamese authorities while trying to leave the country, and was tried and convicted of child sexual abuse charges in 2005-06.
On appeal in 2007 his three-year sentence was reduced by three months, and he was released on 19 August 2008.

Video of journalists tracking him down. Flying into Gibraltar (They wrongly call it Spain!) and finding his yacht moored in Sotogrande. (at 6:45m)

BBC Prison Interview.