Shunned Glitter returns to Thailand

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The increasingly farcical situation leaves the disgraced singer in international limbo. He has already been barred from entering Thailand after travelling there when he was released from a Vietnamese prison.

A Foreign Office spokesman said the 64-year-old, travelling under his real name Paul Gadd, was denied entry to Hong Kong and had now returned to Bangkok.

The Foreign Office spokesman said: "We have been informed by the Hong Kong authorities that Mr Gadd was denied entry to Hong Kong and has returned to Bangkok.Mr Gadd was in contact with us seeking consular assistance." The spokesman did not say what form of assistance Glitter sought.

He was refused entry to the Chinese territory on Wednesday night after flying there on Thai Airways service TF 602, the Foreign Office confirmed.

Chinese authorities informed their UK counterparts that they had barred Glitter from the country after his arrival at 11pm local time (1600 BST). Immigration police at Hong Kong airport said privacy laws meant they could not comment on Glitter's case.

Glitter spent more than 20 hours in the transit lounge at Bangkok airport on Wednesday following his release from a Vietnamese prison on Tuesday.

He had served two years and nine months of a three-year sentence for abusing two girls aged 10 and 11. Under the terms of his release he was due to board a connecting flight to London's Heathrow airport but refused claiming ill health.

He was barred entry into Thailand and immigration officials said Glitter would be taken to a detention centre if he continued to refuse to leave the country.

Lieutenant General Chatchawal Suksomchit, the chief of Thailand's immigration police, said Glitter was denied entry because under Thai immigration laws those convicted of child sex abuse in a foreign country could be barred.