Gary Glitter has left Thailand on a flight bound for London, Britain's foreign ministry said tonight, after Thailand and Hong Kong barred his entry following his release from a Vietnam prison for child sex abuse.
The 64-year-old, travelling under his real name Paul Gadd, had previously refused to return to the UK, claiming ill health. The flight is due to arrive in London tomorrow morning.
He was barred from entering Thailand after travelling there when he was released from a Vietnamese prison and last night was denied entry to Hong Kong.
Hong Kong authorities refused to let him in and put him back on a Thai Airways flight to Bangkok, where he has been declared persona non grata.
Thai immigration officials have previously said he would be taken to a detention centre if he continued to refuse to leave the country.
Glitter spent more than 20 hours in the transit lounge at Bangkok airport yesterday following his release from a Vietnamese prison on Tuesday. He had served two years and nine months of a three-year sentence for abusing two girls aged 10 and 11.
When he arrives in the UK, he will be met at the airport by police officers and served with an order which effectively will put him on the sex offenders' register.