TWISTED Gary Glitter will do “anything” to evade child-sex charges, The Sun can reveal. The admission was made yesterday by the vile paedophile’s Vietnamese lawyer Le Thanh Kinh.
He was explaining why the former glam rock star has paid £1,175 bribes to the poverty-stricken families of two young girls who accused him of rape.
The allegations have been DROPPED since the payments were made.
Mr Kinh said: “Gary Glitter told me to do anything to reduce the sentence and said he will pay money to do that.”
It is suspected the girls — ten and 12 when they accused the pervert — have changed their stories. The bribes mean Glitter, 61, will escape a possible death sentence.
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Bribes ... Glitter in Vietnam
before police seized him
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He is still in custody in Ria-Vung Tau charged with molesting the younger girl, now 11.
But he could now get away with just a six-month stretch.
Glitter is taking advantage of Vietnamese law which permits reduced sentences if compensation is paid and victims plead for leniency.
The bribes, handed over in US dollars, are three times the average annual wage in the South East Asian country. The equivalent here would be £72,000.
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Motorbike reward ... 'wife'
Hoang told cops she found girls
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The payments were peanuts to the millionaire Seventies star, who still earns £100,000 a year in royalties from his hits. Mr Kinh admitted: “I proposed to the families to pay them compensation. It wasn’t their idea.”
He said one family demanded £6,000 but he haggled them down.
The lawyer added that relatives had written to police asking for the rape probe to be dropped and urging leniency on the groping charge.
He said: “The compensation and letters will help reduce the prison term Gary may face. Probably it will be between six months and three years.”
In another twist, the lawyer said the payments would NOT mean Glitter pleading guilty to the molestation allegation.
He added: “Gary said he has not done anything.”
Before his arrest Glitter shared a villa with 18-year-old “wife” Hoang Thi Bong — who told cops she recruited young girls for him.
Hoang, an orphan, was rewarded with a £1,500 motorbike.
