AceShowbiz - Gary Glitter could reportedly be freed from prison within weeks. The pop paedophile, 79, was automatically released in February 2022 from his 16-year sentence after he sexually abused three schoolgirls, but the singer was thrown back behind bars one month later after he breached his licencing conditions at a bail hostel by allegedly watching videos of children.

It's now been reported the disgraced star, born Paul Gadd, could now be set free again following a parole hearing on January 24. The Sun said Caroline Corby, the chair of the Parole Board of England and Wales, confirmed the hearing would be held behind closed doors. It usually takes 14 days for a parole decision to be made, meaning Glitter could be back roaming the streets in just weeks.

The decision to grant him a hearing was slammed by solicitor Richard Scorer, who acts for one of Glitter's ­victims. He has hit out, "My client wants him locked up for as long as possible and I hope the Parole Board will take a common sense view, put public safety first and ensure he stays behind bars. Anything else would be madness."

Glitter's offences range from 1975 to 1980 and included sex with a girl under 13, attempted rape of an eight-year-old, and repeatedly molesting a third girl. In 1999, he was jailed for four months for possessing 4,000 indecent images of children and in 2006 was put behind bars in Vietnam for three years after sex attacks in the country before being release in 2008.

Glitter returned to the U.K. in 2015 after travelling between countries notorious for sex tourism. The extent of his crimes was revealed years later when he became the first person to be arrested under Operation Yewtree, the name of the probe launched in the wake of the Jimmy Savile sex attacks scandal.