Garry Glitter recalled to prison after breaching licence conditions

Paedophile pop star Gary Glitter has been recalled to prison - just 38 days after he was released.

The 79-year-old, who had a string of chart hits in the 1970s, had been freed in February after being jailed in 2015 for sexually abusing three schoolgirls.

He left HMP The Verne – a low security category C jail in Portland, Dorset – following eight years behind bars, having served half of his 16-year sentence.

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But Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was tonight escorted back to jail from his secluded bail hostel after a probe into his use of a smartphone and the Dark Web.

It follows revelations this weekend that Glitter was using a smartphone and was recorded saying he wants to find "the Onion". The term is slang for the seedy Dark Web, used by paedophiles as it is hard to monitor or trace users.

Justice chiefs have now decided the use of the phone breached conditions imposed when he was freed last month, the Mirror reports.

A source said: "Glitter hasn't left the hostel since he was released - he's even had other convicts do his shopping for him. But now he's been sent back to prison for breaching his licence it's clear he was never sorry for his crimes."

He was freed from prison in Dorset and has spent the past month in a hostel in the south of England. Footage obtained apparently from a fellow inmate shows him looking gaunt and with a hearing aid.

He can be heard saying: "Shall I get rid of this DuckDuck?" and a companion replies: "Yeah, I wouldn't bother using that."

Glitter responds: "So what do I do next? Let's try and find this Onion."

It's believed "DuckDuck" is a reference to a search engine