Gary Glitter ordered to pay more than £500,000 to woman he abused | Gary Glitter

The paedophile former pop star Gary Glitter has been ordered by a excessive courtroom decide to pay greater than £500,000 in damages to one of many ladies he abused.

Glitter, whose actual identify is Paul Gadd, is being sued after his 2015 conviction for abusing the claimant and two different younger folks between 1975 and 1980.

She beforehand secured a “default judgment” in her declare – a ruling in her favour over Gadd’s legal responsibility – and on Tuesday Mrs Justice Tipples stated the lady was entitled to damages of £508,800. The decide stated the lady must also be paid curiosity on the damages of about £84,000.

Glitter didn’t attend the listening to, nor was he represented by a lawyer, with the courtroom advised he has not engaged with the civil case.

The decide stated in a 13-page ruling: “There is no such thing as a doubt that the claimant was topic to sexual abuse of essentially the most severe type by the defendant when she was solely 12 years outdated and that has had a really important opposed influence on the remainder of her life.”

Tipples stated the lady introduced the authorized motion after being repeatedly raped and sexually assaulted by Gadd, in addition to being “humiliated and coercively managed” by him.

She continued: “The claimant stated that she felt completely ashamed and he or she would scrub herself within the bathtub every day and this included, once in a while, utilizing a pumice stone to ‘scrub her face off’, and he or she didn’t care what she seemed like. The claimant simply didn’t need to seem like herself.”

Tipples stated the six-figure sum included £381,000 in misplaced earnings and £7,800 for future remedy and therapy.

Richard Scorer, the top of abuse legislation at Slater and Gordon, who acts for the claimant, stated: “In making this award the courtroom has correctly acknowledged the appalling abuse suffered by my shopper. While no sum of money could make up for horrific sexual abuse, the award not less than goes some technique to recognising the devastation inflicted on my shopper all through her childhood and grownup life.

“Gadd’s refusal to interact with the method merely proves his utter lack of regret, one thing we shall be reminding the Parole Board about if he makes one other utility for early launch. We shall be pursuing Gadd for fee and can proceed to assist our shopper by this course of.”

At a listening to in March, the excessive courtroom in London heard that the lady – who can’t be named for authorized causes – had been unable to work for a number of many years because of the abuse.

Her barrister, Jonathan Metzer, stated Gadd’s abuse had a “dramatic and horrible influence” on her training, work and private relationships.

Gadd was jailed for 16 years in 2015 for sexually abusing three schoolgirls. His sentence expires in February 2031.

He was mechanically launched from HMP The Verne, a low-security jail in Portland, Dorset, in February final yr after serving half of his fixed-term determinate sentence.

Nevertheless, he was put again in jail lower than six weeks later when police monitoring confirmed he had breached his licence situations by reportedly making an attempt to entry the darkish net and viewing downloaded photos of youngsters.

A parole listening to in January concluded Gadd shouldn’t be launched. The Parole Board stated there was additionally concern concerning the lack of sufferer empathy that he had continued to indicate, and that he had not taken half in any programmes to handle his offending as a result of he continued to disclaim having a sexual curiosity in kids.