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Glitter, 64, was driven from jail to Tan Son Nhat airport in Ho Chi Minh and put on a plane to London via Bangkok.

He served two years and nine months of a three-year sentence for abusing two girls aged 10 and 11.

His lawyer, Le Thanh Kinh, said Glitter, real name Paul Gadd, was in a good mood as he boarded the flight.

He said: "I spoke to him just now and he said everything is OK. He is happy to be going home. He was in a good mood."

Mr Kinh said Glitter was driven from Thu Duc jail in Binh Thuan province to the British consulate and then put on the flight.

He was transported in a Jeep under police guard to the airport and whisked in a VIP entrance around an hour before the flight took off. He is due to change planes in Thailand and arrive in London on Wednesday.

Police will meet Glitter at the airport when he lands and he will be required to sign the sex offenders' register. He will have to tell the authorities where he is living and notify them of his overseas travel plans.

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said she did not want Glitter to be able to travel abroad again.

"It certainly would be my view that with the sort of record that he's got, he shouldn't be travelling anywhere in the world," she said.