‘My skin is crawling!’ rage ITV viewers at Gary Glitter doc as harrowing victim interviews leave them ‘at boiling point’
ITV viewers have been left horrified after watching their latest documentary on Gary Glitter and his crimes.
The programme, titled Glitter: The Popstar Paedophile, offered viewers a harrowing look into the disturbing crimes of the former singer whose real name is Paul Gadd.
The crimes of Glitter, 79, whose real name is Paul Gadd, first came to light in 1999 when he was imprisoned in Britain for downloading thousands of child sex abuse images.
In 2006, he was found guilty of obscene acts with minors in Vietnam, just four years after being deported from Cambodia over suspected child sexual abuse.
Glitter, who was then deported to the UK, was the first person to be arrested as part of Operation Yewtree – an investigation into the sexual abuse of children in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal.
He was sentenced to 16 years’ imprisonment in 2015 for attempted rape, unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl under 13 and four counts of indecent assault.
Now, fans have been left horrified after watching the new ITV programme which laid the details bare.
People who knew Glitter partook in the programme as they recounted their stories of him as well as gutting testimonies from his victims.
Disgusted, one viewer said their skin was crawling as they penned: “Skins crawling watching this Gary Glitter documentary on ITV the dirty n***es him and Saville were.”
Another watcher added: “This #GaryGlitter documentary is a hard watch most definitely but it’s a must .. #hidinginplainsight.”
A third went on to write: “Why I am watching this I don’t know. years and years he got away with it just like Saville. I’m at boiling point.”
Before a fourth said: “It’s totally shocking what Gary Glitter did to those young girls with sexual abuse. What a vile and horrible n**ce.”
The programme featured interviews with Maggie Oliver, famed for her role in exposing the Rochdale child sex abuse scandal, as well as, Mu Sochua, Cambodian’s Women’s Minister.
In the documentary, criminal barrister John Price KC – who represented three of Glitter’s victims – speaks about the damning effect it had on their lives, including a woman who was eight when the predator tried to rape her in 1975.
He told the show: “She was a friend of the family, there was an occasion when he had a dinner party downstairs and it was after the dinner party was over.
“He came upstairs to where she was sleeping and came into her room, she could remember the repellent smell of alcohol and cigarettes on his breath.”
Recalling that night, the victim said in a recording: “By now, he turned to me and at first I thought he was cuddling me and lying up against me.