British glam rocker Gary Glitter will have his appeal heard next month against a three-year sentence for child molestation, a Vietnamese court official said today.
"His appeals trial is set for June 15th," said Bui Ngoc Hoa, head of the People's Supreme Court of Appeals in Ho Chi Minh City. The trial would last one day, he added.
Glitter (62), whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, was convicted and sentenced to three years in prison by a Vietnamese court on March 3rd for committing obscene acts with girls aged ten and 11 at his rented seaside villa and at a hotel.
He was arrested in November while trying to leave the country on a flight from Ho Chi Minh City to Bangkok, Thailand.
The 1970s glam rock icon claims he is innocent and says he is a victim of a British tabloid conspiracy.
He was also convicted in Britain in 1999 for possessing child pornography. He served half of a four-month jail term.