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Gary Glitter was yesterday ordered to stand trial on sex charges against two girls — and warned not to wear sunglasses in court.
The former pop star faces eight counts including an allegation that he plied one of his under-age victims with alcohol so he could have sex with her.
The charges relate to girls aged between 12 and 14 in the late Seventies and early Eighties.
Glitter, 70, tanned and wearing a goatee, arrived at Westminster magistrates’ court flamboyantly dressed in a white linen suit and scarf, pink shirt and Panama hat.
After he gave his real name — Paul Francis Gadd — address in west London and date of birth he was told by deputy chief magistrate Emma Arbuthnot not to wear sunglasses in court.
His lawyer Christopher Ware said: “It is for a medical condition and is not intended to be disrespectful.”
Arbuthnot said: “I expect him at crown court to wear normal spectacles when giving evidence or something like that, so just bear that in mind.”
She remanded Glitter on bail to appear next at Southwark crown court on July 3. The only condition of bail is that he must surrender his passport to police.
Accompanied by a bodyguard and his lawyer Glitter left court without comment after the four-minute hearing.
He had been the first person to be arrested by officers involved in Operation Yewtree when he was held at his home in Marylebone in October 2012.
The investigation was launched in the wake of serial sex abuse claims against TV presenter Jimmy Savile, who was exposed after his 2011 death as Britain’s most prolific paedophile.
Glitter is accused of four counts of indecent assault on a girl aged 12 or 13 in 1977. He is also charged with two counts of indecent assault between October 1979 and December 1980 involving another girl who was aged 13 or 14 at the time. No plea was entered.
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