HANOI, Vietnam – Police in southern Vietnam have completed their investigation into former British rocker Gary Glitter's alleged obscene acts with a child, his attorney said.
"It's likely that the findings of the investigation will be handed over to him this week," Glitter's Vietnamese attorney Le Thanh Kinh said in a telephone interview Monday.
Glitter, 61, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, is being held at Phuoc Co prison outside the coastal Vung Tau city on suspicion of engaging obscene acts with a child, an offense punishable up to 12 years in prison.
He was seized while trying to board a flight to Bangkok from Ho Chi Minh City on Nov. 19.
Kinh said no additional charge was raised by the police investigators.
Police earlier said they were looking into a child rape charge, an offense punishable by death, after medical tests on the girls including an 11-year-old and 12-year-old showed evidence of intercourse.
The case will be passed to provincial prosecutors for review. It will take a month for prosecutors to decide whether to put Glitter on trial.
Kinh said in earlier interview that Glitter admitted to police that an 11-year-old girl slept in his bed, but denied sexually abusing her.
Glitter won fame as a flamboyant "glam rocker" in the 1970s. He is perhaps best known for the 1972 hit "Rock and Roll Part 2," still often played at sporting events.
He was convicted in Britain in 1999 of possessing child pornography and served half of a four-month jail term. He later went to Cambodia and was permanently expelled in 2002, but Cambodian officials did not specify any crime or file charges.
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