Gary Glitter has been ordered to pay more than £500,000 in damages to one of his victims who sued him at the High Court. The woman is suing Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, following his 2015 conviction for abusing her and two other young people between 1975 and 1980. She previously secured a “default judgment” in her claim – a ruling in her favour over Glitter’s liability – and on Tuesday Mrs Justice Tipples said the woman was entitled to damages of £508,800.
The judge said in a 13-page ruling: “There is no doubt that the claimant was subject to sexual abuse of the most serious kind by the defendant when she was only 12 years old and that has had very significant adverse impact on the rest of her life.” She continued: “The claimant said that she felt totally ashamed and she would scrub herself in the bath daily and this included, on occasion, using a pumice stone to ‘scrub her face off’, and she did not care what she looked like. The claimant just did not want to look like herself.
“The claimant did not tell anyone in her family what happened to her as she was worried that she would bring shame on them all and she thought her family would not love her any more if they knew.” Mrs Justice Tipples said the six-figure sum includes £381,000 in lost earnings and £7,800 for future therapy and treatment. Gary Glitter appeared at Southwark Crown Court in London for his 2015 trial and conviction (Elizabeth Cook/PA) At a hearing in March, the High Cour.
