Pop paedo Gary Glitter given £15k NHS knee operation regardless of sufferers ready 4 months for surgical procedure

POP paedo Gary Glitter had a £15,000 knee op in a NHS hospital — regardless of sufferers having to attend greater than 4 months for the surgical procedure.

The pervert was given his personal facet room and guarded across the clock by prison officers final November.

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And the fiend, 78, left healthcare workers disgusted along with his “pervy” antics and vile tales of his life overseas — the place he abused ladies.

The transfer was slammed final evening as “completely unfair” by one of many a whole lot of sufferers who’ve needed to await an operation.

Glitter was returned to jail final week after The Solar on Sunday revealed how he scoured a smartphone for the darkish net in his bail hostel.

But it surely has now been revealed he spent 5 nights at Dorset County Hospital, Dorchester, the place he was handcuffed to the mattress and had two jail guards with him.

A supply mentioned final evening: “Glitter appeared to return straight in and had a room ready for him.

“It was all organized prematurely, though we didn’t understand how lengthy he had waited for the op in jail.”

He was booked in underneath his actual identify Paul Gadd.

On the time he was an inmate at HMP The Verne, Dorset.

Employees had been instructed to not point out his vile crimes, or to deal with him otherwise from different sufferers.

However they had been additionally instructed to take away their surnames from badges, and warned to not reveal any private info to him.

Our supply added: “No-one might imagine the remedy he was getting and he appeared to revel within the consideration.

“Whereas he was there, Glitter was very chatty and cheerful — and over-friendly. He requested various questions concerning the workers, particularly the youthful feminine ones.

“He took a shine to at least one younger, feminine nurse who was fairly engaging and it made her really feel sick. He additionally spoke rather a lot about going overseas, and mentioned what a good time he had in Cambodia and Vietnam.

“There was no shred of regret about what he had carried out.”

Employees had been instructed to keep away from bodily contact with him.

The supply mentioned: “Glitter additionally joked about how the ‘service’ within the hospital was higher than it was in jail. He spent most of his time sitting up in mattress, chatting or studying books.

“He had the operation due to his age and his knee was degenerating. However, in no way, was it an emergency and fairly lots of people need knee operations who can’t have them.”

A Ministry of Justice supply mentioned that jail bosses needed to give prisoners the identical healthcare as the remainder of the inhabitants.

Final evening, Tory MP Chris Loder for West Dorset, whose constituency the hospital is in, mentioned: “Ideally Glitter wouldn’t be wherever in West Dorset, not to mention a neighborhood hospital.

“He positively shouldn’t be receiving routine surgical procedure earlier than native residents who’ve been ready a very long time for remedy.”

An NHS knee op usually prices round £15,000.

Glitter’s safety element and journey would have added 1000’s to the invoice.

Newest NHS figures reveal in a single yr 185 folks waited greater than the “accepted” 18 weeks for a knee op at Dorset County Hospital after referral.

The transfer for Glitter to get surgical procedure was criticised by arthritis sufferer Rob Martinez, 66.

The previous insurance coverage guide was referred for a double knee op in October 2019.

He waited a yr for surgical procedure on his proper knee, then one other six months for his left.

Rob, of Sandhurst, Berks, mentioned: “The preferential remedy Glitter appears to have gotten is completely unfair. How on earth did he wangle that? It’s horrible he was allowed to slide the online and go straight in.”

Former Met Police detective Mike Hames — who arrange the power’s paedophile unit — mentioned: “It’s disturbing that whereas folks usually await a yr or 18 months for these operations, and 1000’s are on ready lists, that Glitter has had a knee op.”

We instructed final week how Glitter – launched final month — had been caught looking a smartphone in his bail hostel. We revealed how the fiend spoke about search engines like google and yahoo and talked about utilizing the “onion” — or darkish net.

It sparked a probe – and noticed Glitter recalled on Monday evening.

Officers are understood to have monitored Glitter’s telephone exercise remotely earlier than taking the choice to return him to jail.

He’s held at Winchester Jail, however is more likely to be moved again to The Verne in Dorset.

Glitter was first jailed in 1999, after being caught with 4,000 baby abuse photographs on his laptop computer in 1997.

He fled overseas after his launch however in 2002, Glitter was expelled from Cambodia amid experiences of sex crime allegations.

In March 2006, he was convicted of sexually abusing two ladies, aged 10 and 11, in Vietnam and spent two-and-a-half years in jail.

The ex-glam rocker was convicted and jailed in 2015 for historic intercourse assaults.

He abused two ladies, aged 12 and 13, after inviting them backstage to his dressing room after a gig.

He crept into the mattress of a 3rd sufferer – aged underneath 10 – in an try to rape her in 1975.

He was freed midway via a 16-year sentence earlier than being recalled this week.

A Jail Service spokesman mentioned: “We don’t touch upon particular person prisoners.”

A Dorset County Hospital spokeswoman declined to remark.