Gary Glitter ordered to pay over £500,000 in damages to child abuse victim

nme.com:

lawsuit filed against him in March this year by one of the three victims he was convicted of assaulting in the landmark 2015 case.

The incidents originally took place between 1975 and 1980. Gadd denied all the charges, but was acquitted of three other counts.Now, in the current lawsuit, London’s High Court has ordered Gadd to pay over £500,000 to the claimant.

He may also have to pay her legal fees, though that is currently undecided. Gadd did not respond to the compensation claim or attend the hearing.In the decision (which you can read in full here), the judge began the assessment of damages by stating: “There is no doubt that the claimant was subject to sexual abuse of the most serious kind by the defendant when she was only 12 years old and that has had a very significant adverse impact on the rest of her life.”According to the document, Gadd met the claimant and her mother backstage at one of his shows and “plied them with champagne,” eventually isolating the young girl and assaulting her.

The judge wrote there were “further sexual assaults”, including an incident taking place at Gadd’s house in London.The claimant has continued to say that Gadd’s abuse had “severe, profound, and long-lasting” consequences, for which she is seeking damages.