By Rob Cooper
Last updated at 5:30 PM on 25th November 2011
Convicted paedophile Gary Glitter is free to travel abroad again after a three-and-a-half year ban came to an end today.
Police have decided that he no longer represents a threat to children and did not apply to have the restrictions extended.
However, the former glam rock star still has to alert officers if he wants to go abroad for more than three days, Sky News reported.
Gary Glitter, left, on his return to Britain after serving a jail term in Vietnam. Right, the former glam rock star in his heyday
Despite having his travel restrictions lifted, he remains on the sex offenders' register for life.
The Metropolitan Police originally applied to Magistrates for the order when Glitter - real name Paul Gadd - returned to the country from Vietnam in 2008.
Scotland Yard could have tried to extend it but no application was made and the ban expired at midnight.
The orders can last for a maximum of five years.
COURTS CAN ORDER SEX OFFENDER TRAVEL BAN
Convicted Sex offenders can be given Foreign Travel Orders banning them from going abroad for up to five years.
The offender must have been jailed for more than 12 months before the court can make such an order. Glitter was jailed for three years in Vietnam.
The order will be made if the court is convinced it is necessary to protect children outside the UK.
Sex offenders have the right to appeal the order which is granted under the Sexual Offences Act 2003.
Glitter, 67, has been living in London and has donned a series of bizarre disguises to avoid being recognised.
A management team is still looking after his rehabilitation.
Glitter returned to Britain from Vietnam three years ago after serving a prison sentence for molesting two girls, aged 10 and 11.
He had denied the charge but was found guilty and jailed in 2006 for three years.
In 1999, he served half of a four month sentence in Britain for possessing 4,000 child pornography images.
The former star's music has largely been banned from the airways since his fall from grace.
He had several hit songs during the 1970s and continued to record into the 1980s and 1990s.
Earlier this year, Gwyneth Paltrow was criticised for performing one of Glitter's songs on US TV show Glee.
Children's charities condemned the notion that her rendition of Do You Wanna Touch Me would earn Glitter money in royalty payments.
The singer was forced to return to Britain three years ago from Vietnam after 19 other countries refused to let him in.
He travelled to Bangkok and Hong Kong as he tried to find somewhere that would accept him - but came back to the UK when his options ran out.
A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police refused to comment.
Come on,Come on, Come on Come on, Come on Come on, Come on,........... Gary we know you haven't changed and never will.
- James. T, Skegness, 25/11/2011 17:55
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