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++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Various of Thai Airways plane on tarmac
2. Passengers boarding aircraft
3. Various of aircraft, ground crew, ambulance on tarmac
2. Close of up Paul Francis Gadd, known as Gary Glitter, former British glam rocker, in an aircraft cabin, half of his face hidden behind a scarf
3. Wide of Glitter reading a magazine inside the airplane cabin
4. Pan from a magazine in his hand zoom out to wider of Glitter reading the magazine
5. Cutaway a photographer
6. Close of Glitter trying to concealing his face behind the scarf
STORYLINE
Authorities freed former British glam rocker Gary Glitter from prison in southern Vietnam on Tuesday, sending the convicted child molester into an uncertain future after nearly three years of confinement.
Glitter, 64, left Vietnam on a flight to Bangkok on which he was seated in business class in an apparent effort to shield him from reporters also on the plane.
He wore a broad-brimmed cap and wrapped a scarf over part of his face, even as he read a magazine.
According to a Thai Airways staff member, who insisted on anonymity because he was not authorised to release such information, Glitter was booked to continue on to London.
The British Broadcasting Corp. reported later that Glitter refused to board the Britain flight for health reasons.
Glitter, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, was convicted in March 2006 of committing "obscene acts with children." He served 2 years and 9 months of a three-year sentence, which was reduced for good behaviour.
The incidents involved two girls, ages 10 and 11, from the southern coastal city of Vung Tau.
In a recent interview with Vietnamese newspaper Cong An Nhan Dan (People's Police), Glitter said he was thinking about resuming his singing career and that he might move to Hong Kong or Singapore.
Thu Duc is the biggest prison in Vietnam, with over 10,000 prisoners, including roughly 100 foreigners.
It is located in Binh Thuan province, 87 miles (140 kilometres ) north of Ho Chi Minh City.
In his 1970s heyday, Glitter performed in glittery jumpsuits, silver platform shoes and bouffant wigs. He sold 18 (m) million records and recorded a string of British top-10 hits.
His fall from grace began in 1997, when he took his laptop computer to a repair shop and an employee there discovered thousands of hardcore images of children.
Two years later, British authorities convicted him of possession of child pornography, and Glitter served half of his four-month jail term.
He later went to Cambodia but was expelled in 2002, after children's rights advocates protested his presence in the country. Cambodian officials did not specify a crime or file charges against him.
Glitter subsequently moved to Vietnam, where he took up residence in a seaside villa in Vung Tau, a resort town popular as a weekend getaway for residents of Ho Chi Minh City.
Neighbours there said they often heard Glitter singing loudly by his swimming pool and entertaining teenage girls behind the walls surrounding his home.
In November 2005, police launched a week long manhunt for Glitter after allegations arose that he had been molesting girls at his villa.
He was arrested at the Ho Chi Minh City airport, where he was trying to board a flight to Bangkok.
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++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Various of Thai Airways plane on tarmac
2. Passengers boarding aircraft
3. Various of aircraft, ground crew, ambulance on tarmac
2. Close of up Paul Francis Gadd, known as Gary Glitter, former British glam rocker, in an aircraft cabin, half of his face hidden behind a scarf
3. Wide of Glitter reading a magazine inside the airplane cabin
4. Pan from a magazine in his hand zoom out to wider of Glitter reading the magazine
5. Cutaway a photographer
6. Close of Glitter trying to concealing his face behind the scarf
STORYLINE
Authorities freed former British glam rocker Gary Glitter from prison in southern Vietnam on Tuesday, sending the convicted child molester into an uncertain future after nearly three years of confinement.
Glitter, 64, left Vietnam on a flight to Bangkok on which he was seated in business class in an apparent effort to shield him from reporters also on the plane.
He wore a broad-brimmed cap and wrapped a scarf over part of his face, even as he read a magazine.
According to a Thai Airways staff member, who insisted on anonymity because he was not authorised to release such information, Glitter was booked to continue on to London.
The British Broadcasting Corp. reported later that Glitter refused to board the Britain flight for health reasons.
Glitter, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, was convicted in March 2006 of committing "obscene acts with children." He served 2 years and 9 months of a three-year sentence, which was reduced for good behaviour.
The incidents involved two girls, ages 10 and 11, from the southern coastal city of Vung Tau.
In a recent interview with Vietnamese newspaper Cong An Nhan Dan (People's Police), Glitter said he was thinking about resuming his singing career and that he might move to Hong Kong or Singapore.
Thu Duc is the biggest prison in Vietnam, with over 10,000 prisoners, including roughly 100 foreigners.
It is located in Binh Thuan province, 87 miles (140 kilometres ) north of Ho Chi Minh City.
In his 1970s heyday, Glitter performed in glittery jumpsuits, silver platform shoes and bouffant wigs. He sold 18 (m) million records and recorded a string of British top-10 hits.
His fall from grace began in 1997, when he took his laptop computer to a repair shop and an employee there discovered thousands of hardcore images of children.
Two years later, British authorities convicted him of possession of child pornography, and Glitter served half of his four-month jail term.
He later went to Cambodia but was expelled in 2002, after children's rights advocates protested his presence in the country. Cambodian officials did not specify a crime or file charges against him.
Glitter subsequently moved to Vietnam, where he took up residence in a seaside villa in Vung Tau, a resort town popular as a weekend getaway for residents of Ho Chi Minh City.
Neighbours there said they often heard Glitter singing loudly by his swimming pool and entertaining teenage girls behind the walls surrounding his home.
In November 2005, police launched a week long manhunt for Glitter after allegations arose that he had been molesting girls at his villa.
He was arrested at the Ho Chi Minh City airport, where he was trying to board a flight to Bangkok.
You can license this story through AP Archive: www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/ac97879dd33fc4e408947d08f56a23ab
Find out more about AP Archive: www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork