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'They should have put him to death'
Agony of victims who saved pervert Gary Glitter from firing squad
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LOST INNOCENCE: Victims Nguyen (top) and Diem regret taking blood money
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CREEPY: Leering Glitter with Diem and pals
By Simon Parry, 23/08/2008
THE two young girls raped by Gary Glitter in Vietnam claim they were CONNED into accepting the star’s blood money.
Diem and Nguyen—10 and 12 when they were abused—now wish they had let him face the firing squad.
Pop pervert Glitter’s two child victims united in grief last night and bitterly declared: “He SHOULD have faced the firing squad!”
Have Your Say: Was Glitter's sentence too soft?
Evil Glitter dodged execution in Vietnam after paying off the families of the girls—aged just 10 and 12 at the time—who accused him of rape.
But as the disgraced glam rock star went into hiding after arriving back in the UK, the youngsters revealed for the first time how they were TRICKED into taking the £1,000 each which ensured a lesser molestation charge and a pathetic three years in jail.
Tran Thi Thao Nguyem and Tran Thi Thu Diem are enraged by the raddled paedophile’s arrogant claims that HIS human rights were abused in a trial which his lawyer outrageously branded a “travesty of justice”.
Angelic Diem burst into tears when we told her the pervert had been freed from prison. Shaken, she sobbed: “Why so soon? Why so soon?” And she vowed if she could turn back time she would NEVER have taken the pay-off that spared his life three years ago.
Danger
Timid Diem’s poverty-stricken mother Yen then revealed how she felt FORCED to sign the ‘blood money’ papers which got him off child rape charges—despite the fact she CAN’T READ.
Tiny Diem, now 14, is haunted by her sickening ordeal at the hands of the one-time pop idol. She told us: “I still think about the terrible things he did.
“I thought he was a kindly uncle at first, buying me sweets and toys. Now I realise that he’s a very bad man. I wish we’d never taken his dirty money.”
As pictures of the grinning millionaire arriving home in Britain were shown on Vietnamese TV, tearful mum Yen said: “I can’t believe he’s free and I can’t believe he’s complaining about his human rights. What about the rights of my little girl?”
After Glitter, 64, touched down at Heathrow, his lawyer told the world: “He is not a well man, he needs medical attention.”
Last night angry Yen added: “Yes, he IS a very sick man. He’ll never stop being a danger to children until he’s dead. Wherever he goes he’ll bring a curse to young children.
“I’m sorry I couldn’t stop him. I feel I was tricked. I didn’t know that the piece of paper I signed would save Glitter’s life. If I had, I’d NEVER have signed it. We were conned into letting that monster live. He ruined my little girl’s life. He should have been executed or locked away forever.”
Court papers seen by the News of the World reveal the full horror of what Glitter put 10-year-old Diem through after she was ‘sold’ to him for sex by her vice-girl aunt Oanh at £25 a time.
The singer repeatedly abused her over the summer of 2005 after luring her to his villa in the resort of Vung Tau with the promise of her first seaside holiday.
The first time Glitter—real name Paul Gadd—forced himself on Diem was when she emerged naked for a shower.
The official Prosecution Statement of Facts reveals: “At night Diem, Gadd and Oanh all slept together naked on the bed. He would have sex with Oanh while Diem watched. When he had sex with Diem, Oanh watched.
“Diem was told not to tell anyone what had happened and not to speak about it to her mother.”
The papers show cops concluded Glitter DID have sex with Diem—which would have earned him a bullet through the head if convicted of that crime.
But that’s when crafty Glitter got his lawyer Le Thanh Kinh to launch the pay-off scheme to play the Vietnamese system and save his neck—persuading Diem’s mother to sign a document insisting she didn’t want to press charges.
Shaking with anger, mum Yen now insists she was HASSLED into signing it, DID NOT understand it and COULD NOT read it anyway.
“Glitter’s lawyer came to our house with a police officer and took us to his office. There he showed us an envelope full of cash and told us we had to sign the papers immediately or we wouldn’t get any compensation.
“I refused. I said, ‘I can’t read. How can you expect me to sign them?’ But they wouldn’t let me take the document away so someone could read it for me.
“Three more times police came to my house and drove us to see one of their senior officers. Each time he tried to persuade me and Diem to sign. But on the fourth occasion it was all too much.
“I was very scared and didn’t know what to think. The officer told me, ‘If you sign these papers, Gary will go back England. If you don’t sign these papers, Gary will still go back to England but you’ll receive nothing.’
“I signed because I was under so much pressure and I didn’t want Diem to have to go to court. She’d suffered enough already.
“After I signed the papers I was taken to the lawyer Mr Kinh’s office where I was given 2,000 American dollars (about £1,000) in cash. He said, ‘This is a gift from Gary for Diem’s studies.’
“I was relieved because I thought I’d done the right thing to protect my daughter. But when I got home I realised I’d made a terrible mistake.
“My family told me, ‘You’re stupid! You’ve let him get away with it!’ But it was too late to do anything about it.”
Wrong
While Glitter is still a wealthy man—it’s thought he earns up to £50,000 a year and trousered £5million from the sale of his back catalogue—victim Diem lives with her factory worker dad, market trader mum—total income £5 a day—and younger brother in a tin shack in Vietnam’s poverty-stricken Mekong Delta.
Glitter’s cash was used to pay off debts and medical bills for Diem’s brother who suffered from fevers and fits.
Diem said: “I’m glad we were able to help my little brother but I feel very bad about what happened. I know it was wrong.”
She still struggles to come to terms with her ordeal. “Sometimes I just feel scared and vulnerable, and I don’t understand why,” she said.
“I get these moods and don’t know how to make them go away. I still clearly remember what happened and all the the things he did. It’s still there in my mind. Why do grown-ups do those things?”
When asked about Glitter’s cash payment to the family, the top Vietnam police officer involved in the inquiry insisted: “It’s a civil affair, none of our business.”
Glitter was last night at a secret location after being given three days to sign the UK sex offenders’ register.
NGUYEN, 12: They should have put him to death
Depraved Glitter’s second victim Nguyen told the News of the World last night: “He deserves to die.”
Nguyen, now 14, said: “It wasn’t just me and Diem. There were lots of other girls the police never found out about.
“I still have nightmares about what happened. I’m terrified he’ll come back to Vietnam one day and find me. They should have put him to death for what he did to us. He’s pure evil.”
And today for the first time we can reveal the sensational waiver document signed by Nguyen’s mother Mai (below) in return for 2,000 US dollars that allowed Glitter to cheat justice AND the firing squad.
It signs away her right to hire a lawyer in the case, which under Vietnam rules effectively cancels the charge. It also accuses Glitter of “molesting”, a much lesser crime than forced sex.
This paved the way for his lenient three-year sentence.
The court’s official bundle of prosecution evidence shows what effect this had on Nguyen’s statements to police.
Earlier she had told cops Glitter had full sex with her a number of times when she was just 12.
The papers reveal how the creepy star targeted her when she went off the rails and started living rough after the death of an older sister.
She was recruited into his ‘gang’ of young girls by a teenage friend called Bong. The documents state: “Nguyen met Bong and Gadd (his real name) on the beach and Gadd asked Nguyen to visit him on two occasions.
“The first occasion he took them to a coffee shop then a rented room in a guest house in Vung Tau’s ward two.”
It then describes how
Gadd lured Nguyen into showering with him before a three- in-a-bed sex session.
On the next occasion, at his house, Glitter showed Nguyen a porn video then had sex with her on his bed upstairs. The papers add: “According to Nguyen, Gadd had sex or sexual activity with her three times.”
But after the blood money deal Nguyen’s story was drastically changed.
The papers reveal: “Later Nguyen told police in a further interview that Gadd only kissed and touched her and did not have full sex with her.”
Nguyen’s mother Mai said: “I was asked to sign the paper for Glitter by a police chief in Vung Tau.
“He asked me if I really wanted to hire a lawyer and go to court and I said ‘No. We’re too poor and we can’t afford it.’ I read the paper but I didn’t understand it. I was afraid and I didn’t know what to do.
“But the police said all it meant was that we wouldn’t go to court.
“After we signed, Mr Kinh gave us the money. He promised he’d try to get more money from Glitter after the trial but we never heard from him again.”
Last night Nguyen said: “I wish we’d never taken the money. It was a terrible mistake.
“When I think about what Glitter did to me, I want to kill myself.
“Glitter is free now but my life will never be the same.
“I can’t believe a man as dangerous as that is walking the streets.”
He made me dress up as a schoolgirl and said: Call me 'Daddy'
A besotted fan who became Gary Glitter’s 17-year-old girlfriend today tells how the pop pervert persuaded her to live out his sick schoolgirl sex fantasies.
Rachel Harrison revealed the disgraced singer made her dress up in UNIFORM and pleaded: “Call me DADDY,” as they romped together.
DISGUSTED: Rachel today
Today, nearly two decades on, Rachel, now 34, is repulsed by their sex life and insisted: “I was young, naive, inexperienced, and happy to let him guide me sexually.”
But she warned: “He needs to be monitored like a hawk. Given half the chance I reckon he’d go for any young girl who crosses his path.”
Former fan Rachel, from Cornwall, first met Glitter in 1991 when she went backstage to ask for his autograph at a gig in Bristol. They became friends, even though at 47, slippery Glitter was 30 years older than her.
She recalled: “I wouldn’t say I fancied him as he was older than my dad. But I had posters of him on my wall so I was starstruck and flattered by the attention.”
Glitter soon started lavishing her with gifts and even met her parents and taught her to play the guitar. “I couldn’t believe my luck,” she said. “It didn’t cross my mind he might be attracted to me.
“Then, one night he kissed me. I was shocked. He told me he’d broken up with his girlfriend and hoped something special would happen between us.
“The next time I went over there, I ended up sleeping with him. He wasn’t my first and I couldn’t put my finger on why I felt uncomfortable, but I guess the age gap worried me. Still, I desperately wanted him to like me and so I went along with what he said.”
But within weeks, Glitter was making bizarre demands in the bedroom. Even though Rachel had just left school he made her wear her uniform—a white shirt and short, grey skirt. “He would look me up and down on the doorstep and say I looked sexy. Then he’d undress me until he found the white cotton knickers he made me wear—like a seven-year-old’s. I was a late developer and he would always say he loved my flat chest. He liked his women to look like young girls.”
She went on: “One night when we were having sex he suddenly said, ‘Call me Daddy.’ I was really shocked, but he kept saying it, and in the end I went along with his demands. I could tell he wanted me to be like a child, or a daughter, and I knew that was wrong. Looking back it is all vile but at the time I didn’t know any different.
RACHEL: In uniform
But after six months, Rachel started to worry that Glitter was cheating on her and became troubled by his attitude to even younger girls. “I noticed he was leering at 10-year-olds as we walked down the street,” she said. “And once, when we were in a pub, he licked his lips and rubbed his hands as girls of 10 and 11, who were with their parents, walked past. I ran out in tears.”
Rachel later dumped Glitter, worried by his strange behaviour. “I was relieved to get him out of my life,” she said. “I was ashamed of our sex life.”
Today, Rachel—who is now married with a five-year-old son—considers she had a lucky escape. She added: “As far as I’m concerned he’s a danger to young girls everywhere.”
'I want his girl to help me nail dad'
A woman who claims she was raped by Gary Glitter when she was just EIGHT is begging the pervert’s own DAUGHTER to help her cage him for life.
Justine Ackroyd, 42, says she was attacked while sharing a childhood sleepover with her best friend, the disgraced pop star’s girl Sarah, at his West Sussex mansion.
But 20 years later, when police tried to prosecute Glitter in 1998 for the alleged offence, Sarah refused to testify against her dad—and the case was thrown out.
Yet Justine is still determined to bring him to justice.
Speaking from the Bahamas where she is on holiday, she said: “I’ve been through it all before and it was horrendous. But I’d do it again with Sarah on board.
“But if Sarah won’t speak to me, well, that’s that.”
One insider told us: “This is the one case that has never gone away.
If Sarah does support Justine, it would be one of the most explosive trials ever—with father and daughter pitted against each other.”
Sarah's Law trial begins
The government is finally set to launch its pilot schemes to test Sarah’s Law—designed to alert worried parents to predatory paedophiles living nearby.
Four police regions have been selected to trial the scheme from September 15.
Parents and carers in Hampshire, Cleveland, Warwickshire and Cambridgeshire will be told of a sex offender’s history if a child could be at risk—and can check on neighbours and relatives with access to kids.
The move is a victory for our eight-year For Sarah campaign, following the murder of schoolgirl Sarah Payne.