Peter Macdiarmid/Getty ImagesGary Glitter is going away.
The former glam rocker has been sentenced in a British court to 16 years in jail for attempted rape, unlawful intercourse with a girl younger than 16 and four counts of indecent assault, BBC News reported Friday.
"You did all of them real and lasting damage and you did so for no other reason than to obtain sexual gratification for yourself of a wholly improper kind," Judge Alistair McCreath reportedly told Glitter in court, referring to his three victims, whom he's said to have abused between 1975 and 1980.
Per the court, Glitter's youngest victim was younger than 10 when he attempted to have sex with her. "It is difficult to overstate the depravity of this dreadful behaviour," McCreath said, according to the BBC.
Glitter, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, was jailed in Vietnam in 2006 for molesting two girls, ages 11 and 12.
His defense attorney, Sallie Bennett-Jenkins QC, argued that her 70-year-old client has lived "an increasingly isolated life" for the past decade, unable to walk down the street without being "subject to vilification" since his earlier conviction.
McCreath, meanwhile, noted that he was limited to the maximum sentence restrictions attached to Glitter's crimes when they happened, in the 1970s, so he could not impose a life sentence. Though Glitter sought professional help in 2011, the judge continued, "Whatever changes may have been effected in you by this treatment, they did not include any admission at all on your part of the wrong that you had done."
Glitter was found guilty earlier this month after a three-week trial. His arrest had come as part of Operation Yewtree, a mass investigation into sexual abuse allegations launched by the Metropolitan Police in October 2012 after late British media personality Jimmy Savile was accused posthumously of molesting a number of teenage girls.