Pop paedophile Gary Glitter could lose his multi-million-pound fortune after being declared bankrupt for evading a compensation payout.
The disgraced rocker, 80, has refused to pay £508,000 in damages awarded by the High Court last year to a woman he raped when she was 12. Her lawyers at Slater and Gordon successfully launched an enforcement action, making him bankrupt last month.
The case was listed under Glitter’s real name, Paul Francis Gadd, at Torquay and Newton Abbot County Court. A trustee can now take control of his assets, including his £2 million London penthouse, and use them to repay the victim.
Glitter was jailed for 16 years in 2015 for abusing the victim and two other girls between 1975 and 1980. A judge at the High Court last year ruled that the woman was entitled to compensation to cover the time she has been unable to work and the suffering he caused her.