THAILAND has declared Gary Glitter "persona non grata" and is threatening to return him to Vietnam, according to an immigration official.
The shamed ex-glam rocker has refused to board a flight from Thailand to the UK following his release from a Vietnamese prison.
The Foreign Office said Glitter remains in transit, reportedly in a VIP area where travellers can rent small bedrooms airside at Bangkok airport.
In bizarre scenes after landing in Bangkok, Glitter refused to board a connecting flight to Heathrow.
He apparently demanded to fly to Singapore after Thai officials refused to let him through passport control and into the country.
The 64-year-old, whose real name is Paul Gadd, reportedly argued with Thai immigration officers, insisting he was a "free man".
British embassy officials tried to convince him to board the flight home as a British police officer, who was supposed to be accompanying him home, looked on.
Glitter then complained of fatigue and was taken to the VIP area. Reports circulated that he claimed he was having a heart attack.
The ex-glam rock singer left Vietnam on yesterday, arriving in Bangkok after a 90-minute Thai Airways flight from Ho Chi Minh City.
He went to the airport straight from jail, where he had served two years and nine months of a three-year sentence for abusing two girls aged 10 and 11.
A Foreign Office spokesman said: "The last information we have is that shortly before the flight to the UK departed he declined to board.
"We were last aware that he remained in transit. He decides where he applies to go and the country or authorities there will decide whether they permit him to enter their territory."
Glitter was originally due to arrive at Heathrow this morning, where he would have been met by police and ordered to sign the sex offenders' register.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said yesterday she did not want him to be able to travel abroad again.
tc • n/a Subject: n/a Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:51:45 • Of course no perversion ever existed or exists in Africa except that imported by the European perverts.
And please explain, what has homosexuality practised between 2 consenting adults to do with child abuse?
And lest my comments fit too simply into your polarised mental structures, I'm not condoning Gary Glitter's behaviour, as I will never condone any form of abuse, sexual or otherwise. That, by the way, includes abuse of power.
n/a • n/a Subject: n/a Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:50:44 • Well I thought this pervert would be more than likely to be welcome in Botswana seeing that we have a member of the alternative sex orientation heading that country's govt. Since the Motswana head of state is also a muzukuru maybe he can accommodate his sekuru so that the little bushmen children can be violated. At least the Tswanas have stopped being African and are now white and this wont be an altogether new thing for them!
Omugabe • Dziva@sanandresano.com Subject: Look Inward & Look East for Self-development, Zim Patriots! Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:48:00 • The Thais should toss this latest European pervert into the ocean.
All they do is to travel the world and prey upon the children.
Such perverts have no business being outside of confinement.
He should be at least kept in confinement for the rest of his days; and give him the option of suicide.
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