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Child abuser Gary Glitter is facing bankruptcy after not paying a 12-year-old girl victim £508,000. compensation.

Glitter – real name Paul Gadd – is currently in prison serving a 16-year sentence for sex crimes between 1975 and 1980.

Among his victims was the schoolgirl.

Last year a High Court judge ordered Gadd, 80, to pay her for the long-term suffering and damage to her ability to work.

The £508,000 compensation includes £381,000 in lost earnings as well as £7,800 for future therapy and treatment.

However, the chart-topping singer with three number one UK hits, has failed to pay up.

The victim’s solicitors have now brought an enforcement action at Torquay and Newton Abbot County Court.

Papers show Gadd was made bankrupt and a trustee has been appointed to take over his estate.

The singer still has a £2 million London penthouse and receives some royalties from his many hits around the world.

Those assets could be used to pay the owed compensation.

Gadd was released from prison in 2023 but within weeks he was back behind bars after breaching his licence.

Last February The Parole Board reconsidered his case for freedom.

However, it found Gadd showed a “lack of victim empathy and continues to have a sexual interest in young girls.”

The Board was told he did not engage with courses in prison aimed at rehabilitation.

A probation officer assessed him as “unfit for release” because of the danger he continues to pose to children.

Gadd was jailed in Vietnam in 2006 for abusing two girls aged 11 and 12.

He served two and a half years in prison before returning to the UK in 2008.