Home Secretary wants Paul Gadd aka 'Gary Glitter' to remain in Britain ?

Question

We read that the British Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, wants Paul Gadd aka 'Gary Glitter' to remain in Britain once he has returned from Vietnam. Gadd has said he was thinking about resuming his singing career and that he might move to Hong Kong or Singapore

Gadd has just been released from a Vietnamese prison after serving most of a three-year sentence for child s*x offences.

In view of the Vietnamese conviction, is it right that this man no longer be allowed to travel abroad ?

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/aug/19/ukcrime.childprotection1

Answer 1

It may not be a popular opinion but I think he should be made to stay here. It would be too easy for him to slip under the radar in some countries and get back to his old ways. At least here he will hopefully be monitored. And of course the British press will make his life a misery, which is no bad thing.

Answer 2

They want to keep him in this Country to be hounded by the media and press every waking day of his life.

Answer 3

Yes keep him out the country, just think of the money we would save if he wasn't here. plus it wouldn't be long before the government lost all their paper work on him.

Answer 4

It most certainly is right. Here he will be subject to controls and limitations that elsewhere in the world he would not encounter.

Answer 5

If Jacqui Smith is so keen for Glitter to return to the UK, then make Glitter live next door to her. Because no-one else in the UK wants him within a hundred miles of our kids.

Answer 6

I certainly think there is a case for offering Glitter political asylum in any country that would take him.  I doubt he could manage to live anywhere in the UK without the constant threat of being murdered.

All that remains is which country would take him.  If he does manage to find one, then he should be put on the next plane out. If he doesn't, then I'm afraid the UK is stuck with him, and he is stuck with the UK.

Indeed anyone who feels threatened or intimidated by the child protection measures in the UK may well consider a happier life in exile.

I imagine though that it would be wise for any emigrating Brit to bone up on the current laws of the new country first!

Answer 7

no its wrong.  hes served his sentence, and his sentence did not include permanent confiscation of his passport.  

his crimes are bad, but theyre not worse than murder, and released murderers are free to travel, so why not him?

besides, with this government's supervisory record, keeping him here would put british kids more at risk, so id rather he was elsewhere

Answer 8

He Shouldnt Be Allowed Anywhere Sure Lets Take Hi Out Of Vietnam So He Can Molest Our Children Instead

Answer 9

They want to keep an eye on him, we can't shift our problems to another country and say: 'oh let him live where he wants provided he's not here' - I am sure the people who claim this are the same ones screaming for foreigners who commit crimes in the UK to 'p*ss off back to where they came from'.

Answer 10

Yee olde witch hunt is getting into full swing.

Answer 11

If the police can prevent English football hooligans from travelling abroad then why cant they stop the likes of Gary Glitter  

Answer 12

Let him go where he wants, as long as it isn't here.

Answer 13

He should be made to stay here and not destroy the lives of more children in countries where it is not so closely monitored, and I hope his life is made an absolute misery for his remaining days.