Gary Glitter's complaint over 'execution' TV show dismissed

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Gary Glitter has had his complaint he was treated unfairly by a 2009 TV drama dismissed by media watchdog Ofcom.

The former glam rocker claimed that Channel 4s 'The Execution Of Gary Glitter' might have led viewers to believe that he'd committed "terrible" crimes that had not been dealt with by the law.

In 1999 Glitter was sentenced to four months in a UK prison for possessing images of child sex abuse. He then served three years in a jail in Vietnam after being sentenced in 2006 for sexually abusing two Vietnamese girls and released in 2008. Part of Glitter's complaint was that he hadn't been convicted of child rape -- something the programme implied.

However, Ofcom ruled against Glitter -- real name Paul Gadd -- and ruled the drama had made it clear that it was a work of fiction and decided that his "well-known reputation in relation to child sex offences" meant that there was "little scope for additional damage to his reputation", reports the BBC.

Ofcom further ruled that the drama made explicit the fact it was set in a fictional vision of Britain and decided that the programme had not treated Glitter unfairly.

 

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