A Vietnamese court sentenced British "glam rocker" Gary Glitter to three years in jail this morning for molesting two young girls.
If he wins early parole he could be free by Christmas, however.
Judge Hoang Thanh Tung described in graphic detail the offences committed by the 1970s pop icon in the southern resort town of Vung Tau, drawing gasps from the Vietnamese packed into the courtroom along with dozens of foreign reporters.
He said Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, ejaculated onto the stomach of one of the girls and had another urinate into his mouth.
"The court pronounces the defendant, Paul Francis Gadd, also known as Gary Glitter, guilty of engaging in lewd acts with children," said the judge.
The black-shirted Glitter, who had been told by the judge to remove his red bandana at the start of the 25-minute hearing, stared ahead motionlessly as the sentence was read out, before being buried in a scrum of photographers.
But he shouted out afterward toward an unnamed British newspaper he blamed for his troubles. "It's a conspiracy. You know who. One of Great Britain's newspapers," he said as he was escorted into a prison van by 10 green-uniformed policemen.
Defence lawyer Le Thanh Kinh said Glitter, who is already a registered sex offender in Britain for a 1999 child porn conviction, would be eligible for parole one year from when he was first detained, in November 2005, as is customary in Vietnam.
The three months he has already spent in prison will also be deducted from his sentence. He would be deported from the communist southeast Asian nation at the end of his sentence, the judge said.
Glitter had 15 days to appeal but had yet to decide whether to do so, Mr Kinh told reporters.
Chief investigator Colonel Nguyen Duc Trinh said he had also recovered 2,231 images of child porn
from Glitter's computer and 31 video clips, opening the way for prosecution by police in Britain if he ends up there after his deportation.
The files were "mainly children making love to each other, or naked children", he told reporters. "Biologically, Glitter is not a normal person. A normal person would never store such photos."