DISGRACED rock star and former Wedmore resident Gary Glitter has today (Friday) been jailed for 16 years for a series of historic sex attacks three young girls.
The 70-year-old who was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court under his real name Paul Gadd after being found guilty of having sex with a girl under 13 as well as four counts of indecent assault and one of attempted rape between 1975 and 1980.
Gadd lived in Wedmore in the 1990s at the time when a number of child pornography images were found on his computer.
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