Gary Glitter was a British rock and roll performer in the early 1970s, most notable for his hit songs "Rock and Roll", parts of which have become an almost ubiquitous anthem at many American professional sports events & "I'm The Leader Of The Gang (I Am)", which became his career anthem. In 1999, he was convicted of child pornography offences. Now Glitter faces death from a firing squad, "or decades in a squalid jail if he is found guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl in Vietnam," says the Times Online.

The Vietnam girl is said to have admitted having paid sex with Gadd, "but police in the Vietnamese resort city of Vung Tau said yesterday that it was still considered rape under Vietnamese law," says the Times.