Leader of the Gang Gary Glitter's Not the First Western Paedophile to Prowl Southeast Asia. It's Just That He Got Caught Gary Glitter's Not the First Western Paedophile to Prowl Southeast Asia. It's Just That He Got Caught Neil Mackay Reports

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IF it weren't for the fact that Gary Glitter ended up in a foreign prison for abusing children, the saga of his life and crimes in southeast Asia would be typical of the countless Western child sex tourists who haunt the cities, villages and resorts of countries such as Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand.

Few paedophiles who rape and molest children overseas ever see the inside of a prison cell. In that respect, Glitter breaks the stereotype. On Friday, he was jailed for three years for sexually abusing two Vietnamese girls aged 11 and 12.

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Leader of the Gang Gary Glitter's Not the First Western Paedophile to Prowl Southeast Asia. It's Just That He Got Caught Gary Glitter's Not the First Western Paedophile to Prowl Southeast Asia. It's Just That He Got Caught Neil Mackay Reports

"In many ways, Glitter, 61, represents the typical offender, " says Christine Beddoe, of ECPAT (End Child Prostitution, Pornography and Trafficking). "He goes overseas to escape detection for his crimes, knowing he can't carry out these offences in the UK anymore; and he goes to a country steeped in poverty where children are vulnerable and families can be exploited."

Take a paedophile from France, Britain, America or Italy and place them in a city such as Hanoi, Phnom Penh or Bangkok and they will seek out their victims using one thing - cash." While Glitter lived in Vietnam, other offenders will trav...

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