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1970s Glam Rock Star Released Early from Prison After Serving Half His Sentence

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Olivia House

Published Jan 31, 2026

Previous glitz pop star Gary Sparkle was delivered right on time from jail on Friday subsequent to serving half of a 16-year sentence for physically mishandling three little kids during the 1970s, the Related Press detailed. The vocalist, whose genuine name is Paul Gadd, was set free from a jail in Dorset, Britain, and will carry out the rest of his punishment waiting on the post trial process.

“Sex wrongdoers like Paul Gadd are firmly checked by the police and Probation Administration and face probably the strictest permit conditions, incorporating being fitted with a GPS tag,” the Service of Equity said in an explanation got by the AP. “On the off chance that the guilty party penetrates these circumstances anytime, they can return in a correctional facility.”

Gadd, 79, was sentenced for one count of endeavored assault, four counts of foul attack and one count of sex with a young lady younger than 12, The New York Times detailed.

Gadd was a worldwide pop star during the 1970s when he went after two young ladies, then, at that point, 12 and 13 years of age, in his changing area in the wake of disconnecting them from their moms, The Watchman reports. In 1975, he endeavored to assault his third casualty subsequent to slithering into her bed.

The claims were made 40 years some other time when Gadd turned into the primary individual to be captured under Activity Yewtree, an examination sent off by the Metropolitan police.

Richard Scorer, a legal counselor addressing one of the people in question, said Gadd “has never conceded his offenses, has never apologized and has never shown any regret,” The Watchman detailed. “I’ve addressed my client today and like each survivor of serious rape confronting early arrival of her victimizer, today is an unquestionably troublesome day for her.

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The maltreatment, including rehashed assaults which our client experienced the age of 12, have left her with a lifelong incarceration,” said Scorer.

“Our client feels this was not the equity she was guaranteed and the early delivery downgrades her torment and that of his different casualties.”

Gadd, who’s most popular for his melody “Rowdy ‘Pt. 2” which was highlighted in the film Joker, and frequently played at games, has a background marked by physically manhandling minors.

He has not claimed the freedoms to his melodies starting around 1997, Individuals announced in 2019.

A delegate for Snapper Music, which is situated in Britain, told Individuals in an explanation that “he isn’t qualified for, nor have we paid any eminences” to Gadd.

In the last part of the 1990s, he served two months in prison in the wake of conceding to having 4,000 pictures of kid porn.

In 2006, he was condemned to three years in jail in Vietnam for attacking two underage young ladies, The New York Times announced.