Glitter wants to return to UK

Gary Glitter is on the point of returning to Britain after five years in exile.

The 61-year-old former glamrock star was jailed for four months in 1999 for downloading 4,000 pornographic photographs of children from the Internet.

He has been living in Cambodia, a haunt of Western sex tourists and paedophiles, in a five-bedroom mansion funded by royalties from his hit singles, such as Leader of the Gang, and renting out his £750,000 London penthouse.

However yesterday it was reported that he is homesick. Lesley Campbell, who met Glitter when she was in the Seventies dance group Hot Gossip, told a friend: 'He's fed up with living over there. He thinks he'd done his time on the run. He's British and he wants to come home. He's nearly a pensioner now and wants to live the rest of his life back here.

'He knows what people think of him, but he's going to take his chances back in Britain.'