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Ba Ria - 2 March 2006
1. Exterior of Ba Ria Vung Tau provincial people's court
2. Close of the court's sign
3. Exterior of the court front.
4. Pan of car taking Gary Glitter out of prison
5. Pan of reporters waiting at the court front.
6. Various of one of the victims and her mother arriving at the court.
7. Car taking Glitter arriving at the court
8. People watching from outside of court gate.
9. Various of Glitter arriving at the court.
10. Various of Glitter arriving at the court
11. Wide interior of the court room
12. Various interiors of court room
Ba Ria - 1 March 2006
13. Glitter's lawyer, Le Thanh Kinh, walking downstairs at his hotel
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Le Thanh Kinh, Lawyer for Gary Glitter:
"He's (Glitter) agreed with some of my points in my defence (case) and he believes that any sentences from the court will be in favour for (of) him."
15. Lawyer Kinh reading documents
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Le Thanh Kinh, Lawyer for Gary Glitter:
"You know, I can say that I've tried my best to protect interests of my client. That means he is innocent in this case. This moment, I say that, and I follow this strategy. But in my opinion, accepted or not accepted, we have to wait for the sentence from the judge."
Ba Ria - 2 March 2006
17. Various of Glitter surrounded by reporters walking up to the court room
18. Various of Glitter surrounded by reporters walking up to the court room
GARY GLITTER MOLESTATION TRIAL OPENS
The trial of former British rocker Gary Glitter opened on Thursday on charges that he molested two under-aged Vietnamese girls at his seaside rental home in southern Vietnam.
The former glam rocker, an icon of the 1970s, has been accused of committing obscene acts, including kissing, fondling and other physical acts, with a 10-year-old and 11-year-old at his residence in the southern port city of Vung Tau last year.
He has denied the allegations. He faces three to seven years in prison if convicted.
Glitter, 61, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, was escorted through a scrum of reporters on Thursday morning into the yellow concrete courthouse in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province.
Glitter held up two fingers in a victory sign and said only one word: "Innocent."
Dozens of curious onlookers crowded outside the gates of the courthouse as the armoured police van drove up.
A day earlier, his lawyer, Le Thanh Kinh, said Glitter maintained his innocence in the case.
"You know, I can say that I've tried my best to protect interests of my client. That means he is innocent in this case. This moment, I say that, and I follow this strategy. But in my opinion, accepted or not accepted, we have to wait for the sentence from the judge," he said in an interview with AP Television.
Glitter has said he was teaching the girls English at his home and considered them "like his grandchildren."
He has been in police custody since November 19, when he was seized in Ho Chi Minh City trying to board a flight out of the country.
Police confiscated his laptop, which had hundreds of pornographic pictures on it.
During the criminal investigation, police had considered whether to charge Glitter with child rape, which carries a maximum penalty of death, but said they did not find enough evidence.
The girls' families wrote to the court in December (2005) , asking that charges be dropped altogether after Glitter paid 2000 dollars to each of them.
Although prosecutors decided to move forward with the case anyway, under Vietnam's legal system, the payments are considered "compensation" that counts toward lessening any sentence.
His fall from grace began with a conviction in Britain in 1999 for possessing child pornography. He served half of a four-month jail term.
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Ba Ria - 2 March 2006
1. Exterior of Ba Ria Vung Tau provincial people's court
2. Close of the court's sign
3. Exterior of the court front.
4. Pan of car taking Gary Glitter out of prison
5. Pan of reporters waiting at the court front.
6. Various of one of the victims and her mother arriving at the court.
7. Car taking Glitter arriving at the court
8. People watching from outside of court gate.
9. Various of Glitter arriving at the court.
10. Various of Glitter arriving at the court
11. Wide interior of the court room
12. Various interiors of court room
Ba Ria - 1 March 2006
13. Glitter's lawyer, Le Thanh Kinh, walking downstairs at his hotel
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Le Thanh Kinh, Lawyer for Gary Glitter:
"He's (Glitter) agreed with some of my points in my defence (case) and he believes that any sentences from the court will be in favour for (of) him."
15. Lawyer Kinh reading documents
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Le Thanh Kinh, Lawyer for Gary Glitter:
"You know, I can say that I've tried my best to protect interests of my client. That means he is innocent in this case. This moment, I say that, and I follow this strategy. But in my opinion, accepted or not accepted, we have to wait for the sentence from the judge."
Ba Ria - 2 March 2006
17. Various of Glitter surrounded by reporters walking up to the court room
18. Various of Glitter surrounded by reporters walking up to the court room
GARY GLITTER MOLESTATION TRIAL OPENS
The trial of former British rocker Gary Glitter opened on Thursday on charges that he molested two under-aged Vietnamese girls at his seaside rental home in southern Vietnam.
The former glam rocker, an icon of the 1970s, has been accused of committing obscene acts, including kissing, fondling and other physical acts, with a 10-year-old and 11-year-old at his residence in the southern port city of Vung Tau last year.
He has denied the allegations. He faces three to seven years in prison if convicted.
Glitter, 61, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, was escorted through a scrum of reporters on Thursday morning into the yellow concrete courthouse in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province.
Glitter held up two fingers in a victory sign and said only one word: "Innocent."
Dozens of curious onlookers crowded outside the gates of the courthouse as the armoured police van drove up.
A day earlier, his lawyer, Le Thanh Kinh, said Glitter maintained his innocence in the case.
"You know, I can say that I've tried my best to protect interests of my client. That means he is innocent in this case. This moment, I say that, and I follow this strategy. But in my opinion, accepted or not accepted, we have to wait for the sentence from the judge," he said in an interview with AP Television.
Glitter has said he was teaching the girls English at his home and considered them "like his grandchildren."
He has been in police custody since November 19, when he was seized in Ho Chi Minh City trying to board a flight out of the country.
Police confiscated his laptop, which had hundreds of pornographic pictures on it.
During the criminal investigation, police had considered whether to charge Glitter with child rape, which carries a maximum penalty of death, but said they did not find enough evidence.
The girls' families wrote to the court in December (2005) , asking that charges be dropped altogether after Glitter paid 2000 dollars to each of them.
Although prosecutors decided to move forward with the case anyway, under Vietnam's legal system, the payments are considered "compensation" that counts toward lessening any sentence.
His fall from grace began with a conviction in Britain in 1999 for possessing child pornography. He served half of a four-month jail term.
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