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<\/p>\nFORMER pop star Gary Glitter was released to a bail hostel where there six other convicted child sex abusers, it has emerged.<\/p>\n
Glitter, real name Paul Gadd, was returned to prison yesterday after The Sun on Sunday revealed a film of him using a mobile at a hostel.<\/p>\n
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And Mike Hames, former head of Scotland Yard's Paedophile Unit, has revealed that Glitter was in a hostel with around six convicted child sex abusers who've been released on licence.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Times Radio, Mr Hames said: "He was put into the bail hostel where I think there were 17 men in all, and about six of them were convicted child sex abusers who've been released on licence. <\/p>\n
"What that does is to put them in a position where they can talk to each other, talk about what they've done in the past, share their fantasies and essentially plot what they're going to do next. <\/p>\n
"And so that does raise certain concerns. They're going to talk about the thing that they're completely obsessed by, and that's having sex with children."<\/p>\n
It comes after the disturbing footage, obtained by The Sun on Sunday, shows Glitter discussing which search engines to use and referring to accessing the Dark Web.<\/p>\n
In the video, he asks a pal: \u201cShall I get rid of this Duck Duck?\u201d<\/p>\n
His friend replies: \u201cYeah, I wouldn\u2019t bother using that if I were you.\u201d<\/p>\n
His reference to \u201cDuck Duck\u201d is understood to mean search engine DuckDuckGo, which advertises itself as protecting users\u2019 privacy. <\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n The footage resulted in Gadd's recall to prison. <\/p>\n Police are now trawling through the phone to establish if the former pop star looked at Dark Web content after it was sent to the Probation Office.<\/p>\n Mr Hames said Gadd will "always be a danger to children" and will "probably die in prison".<\/p>\n "As far as Gadd is concerned, he is so dangerous, he's so fixated on his offending behaviour that he'll never stop. He's gone too far. <\/p>\n "And he's arrogant, he's opinionated. He didn't plead guilty for a start. When he was in prison he took no part in the offender management programmes. <\/p>\n "He's somebody who is always going to be a danger to children, quite frankly."<\/p>\n "Here was a case where if anybody was going to be sentenced to an indeterminate sentence, it would have been him. <\/p>\n "So I have no doubt he'll serve the next eight years of his sentence. He'll probably die in prison."<\/p>\n The Probation Service confirmed Glitter\u2019s recall, saying: \u201cProtecting the public is our priority.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s why we set tough licence conditions and when offenders breach them, we don\u2019t hesitate to return them to custody.\u201d<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/file-photo-dated-16-07-206791488.jpg\")
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