London, Nov 26 (ANI): Child protection campaigners have expressed their resentment over the decision to lift the three-and-a-half year travel ban on convicted paedophile Gary Glitter.
The glam rock icon was imposed with the ban in 2008 after he returned to the U.K. following his release from a three-year prison sentence in Vietnam for abusing two girls aged 10 and 11.
The ban came to an end this month after the police decided that he no longer represents a threat to children and did not apply to have the restrictions extended, the Daily Mail reported.
Ukip Home Affairs spokesman Gerard Batten MEP called the decision a "disgrace".
"This is about protecting children wherever they are. It would be in the public's interest to stop someone like Gary Glitter travelling abroad where he can't be monitored in the way he is over here," the Daily Express quoted him as saying.
"Children in the UK are better protected than a lot of those overseas. We have a duty to do what we can to help them."
The decision to lift the ban on Glitter has been widely condemned by children's charities.
"We have a duty to children around the world and not just the children of the UK - especially those countries with a very bad record for child trafficking and misuse," Claude Knights of children's charity Kidscape said.
"Mr Gadd is on the Sex Offenders' Register for life and that speaks for itself," Knights added.
However, according to Sky News, the former glam rock star still has to alert officers if he wants to go abroad for more than three days.
In 1999, the shamed singer had 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. (ANI)
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