Paedophile Gary Glitter and Portland prison inmate receives Covid-19 jab

Glitter, real name Paul Gadd, is serving 16 years at HMP The Verne on Portland after he was jailed for attempted rape, indecent assault and having sex with a child under the age of 13.

He and other older inmates received a dose of the Covid-19 vaccine last week.

The former glam-rock musician, 76, is in the age group being invited to receive a dose of the vaccine in line with Government’s prioritisation plans.

The current priority group includes all those in the general population age 75 and over as the Government set a target for everyone over 70 and clinically extremely vulnerable people to get the first dose by Monday, February 15.

The Verne on Portland has become a jail for sex offenders.

The Ministry of Justice has previously said prisoners will not get preferential treatment for a jab.

A spokesman for the Government said: "Prisoners are being vaccinated at the same time as the general public and in line with the priority groups set out by the independent Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation.”

Gary Glitter found fame in the 1970s with a string of glam-rock hits and scored a number of chart-topping singles.

But his career was in disgrace after Glitter admitted to possession of child pornography and was jailed for four months in 1999.

Gary Glitter has been convicted of multiple sex offences

Glitter was later expelled from Cambodia in 2002 and was convicted in March 2006 of sexually abusing two girls, aged 10 and 11, in Vietnam.

He was convicted of attempted rape, four counts of indecent assault, and one of having sex with a girl under the age of 13 and was sentenced to 16 years in prison in February 2015.

Glitter was moved to The Verne on Portland in 2018, when the prison became a jail for sex offenders. It is one of a few prisons in the country dedicated to holding those convicted of sexual offences in response to an increase in the number of abusers.