British rock singer Glitter returns home

London: British rock singer Gary Glitter returned to Britain on Friday after spending three years in a Vietnamese jail for child abuse offences.

Glitter arrived at Heathrow airport after an overnight flight on Thai Airways from Bangkok.

He was met by police who were expected to have him sign an order putting him on the sex offenders' register.

Ahead of his return, the tabloid Sun newspaper told how the "pervert pop star" was coming back, and the Mirror printed a headline saying "Warning: This vile man lands back in Britain today" next to a picture of a grinning Glitter.

Glitter, 64, was released from jail in Vietnam on Tuesday after serving almost all of his three-year sentence.

Glitter was convicted in Britain in 1999 of downloading thousands of images of child pornography onto his personal computer.

He later left the country and moved to Cambodia, staying there for several years before being blacklisted, again on sex allegations.

He moved to Vietnam, where he was arrested in 2005 and charged with the sexual abuse of two young girls. A year later, he was convicted of sexually abusing the girls.