Gary Glitter has been thrown back in prison just 38 days after being released on licence.
The disgraced pop star, 78, was escorted back to jail from his bail hostel after a probe into his use of a smartphone and the Dark Web. It follows revelations that Glitter was using a smartphone and was recorded saying he wants to find "this Onion".
The term is slang for the Dark Web, used by paedophiles as it is hard to monitor or trace users. Justice chiefs have now decided the use of the phone breached conditions imposed when he was freed last month, MirrorOnline reports.
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A source said: "Glitter hasn't left the hostel since he was released - he's even had other convicts do his shopping for him. But now he's been sent back to prison for breaching his licence it's clear he was never sorry for his crimes."
He was freed from prison in Dorset and has spent the past month in a hostel in the south of England. Footage obtained apparently from a fellow inmate shows him looking gaunt and with a hearing aid.
He can be heard saying: "Shall I get rid of this DuckDuck?" and a companion replies: "Yeah, I wouldn't bother using that."
Glitter responds: "So what do I do next? Let's try and find this Onion."
It's believed "DuckDuck" is a reference to a search engine with high levels of privacy. Glitter was freed after serving half a 16-year term imposed in 2015 for sexually abusing girls aged under 13 during his glam rock heyday in the 1970s and 80s.
He was previously jailed for four months in 1999 over a vile cache of 4,000 child abuse images found on his computer. Glitter went abroad and was jailed again in 2006 for sexually abusing two girls in Vietnam.
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