Paedophile Gary Glitter 'is being sent back to prison'

Shamed pop star Gary Glitter was recalled to jail after allegedly being caught trying to access the 'dark web' just 38 days after being freed. The sex offender was freed last month after serving half a 16-year term imposed in 2015 for sexually abusing girls aged under 13 during his pop heyday in the 1970s. He was heard saying he is trying to find 'the Onion' at the bail hostel, which is a term for the infamous online realm the Dark Web, used by paedophiles as it is hard to monitor or trace users Gary Glitter is pictured in 2007 in Vietnam where he spent three years in prison for child abuse charges The Ministry of Justice had said on his release that he would face 'some of the strictest licence conditions' and that if he flouted them at any point he could go back behind bars. Glitter was freed after serving half a 16-year term imposed in 2015 for sexually abusing girls aged under 13 during his glam rock heyday in the 1970s and 80s He was previously jailed for four months in 1999 over a vile cache of 4,000 child abuse images found on his computer. Former home secretary Priti Patel said if Glitter was breaching conditions imposed when he was freed last month, he should be sent straight back to jail.