Gary Glitter was refused entry to Hong Kong tonight after flying there from Thailand, the Foreign Office confirmed.

Glitter had flown to the Chinese territory after refusing to board a flight to London following his deportation from Vietnam.The 64-year-old former glam rocker, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was deported after serving almost three years in jail for sexually abusing two girls.Chinese authorities informed their UK counterparts that they had barred Gadd from the country after his arrival at 11pm local time (1600 BST).He had refused to board a UK-bound flight at Bangkok airport, saying he was having a heart attack. Thai officials threatened to transfer him to a detention centre if he continued to thwart efforts to remove him from the airport but police and airline officials said Gadd had boarded a flight to Hong Kong this afternoon.
Gadd's demands to be let into Thailand were refused by the Thai authorities, who were prepared to exercise powers to deny entry to convicted sex offenders and would not allow him to pass immigration.Travellers are allowed to spend only 12 hours in transit at the airport before they are deemed to have violated Thai immigration law. Gadd was told he would not be allowed to leave the airport unless it was on a flight out of the country.He missed his connection last night. A second flight left for London at 12.25pm local time (6.25am GMT), but Thai Airways said Gadd was not on board. Major General Phongdej Chaiprawat, of the Thai police, said: "He is banned from entering (Thailand) because he was jailed and he could pose a threat to domestic morality. He is a transit passenger and it is the responsibility of the airline to take him to his final destination."A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We were last aware that he remained in transit. He decides where he applies to go and the country or authorities there will decide whether they permit him to enter their territory."It is unlikely that any south Asian country will accept Gadd. Cambodia has already blacklisted him.Gadd's deportation degenerated into confusion yesterday when he landed in Bangkok after a 90-minute Thai Airways flight from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, but refused to transfer to his connecting flight.Gadd demanded to fly to Singapore after Thai officials refused to let him into the country.
He argued with immigration officers, insisting he had "done his time" and was a "free man", while Thai officials and British embassy staff tried to persuade him to board the London-bound plane. Then he complained of a heart ailment and booked himself into a VIP hotel within the airport. The hotel is technically international territory. This morning Gadd refused to check out, claiming to be unwell.
He was released yesterday from Thu Duc prison, north of Ho Chi Minh City, after serving two years and nine months of a three-year sentence for the repeated sexual abuse of two girls aged 10 and 11.He had been due to arrive at Heathrow this morning, where he would have been met by police and ordered to sign the sex offenders' register.
The home secretary, Jacqui Smith, said today that Britain could not enforce Gadd's return. A British police officer sent to escort him back to the UK admitted he had no legal jurisdiction and could only look on during yesterday's developments.
Gadd was jailed in the UK in 1999 for downloading child pornography. On release he moved to Spain and Cuba before going to south-east Asia.
Cambodia expelled him over alleged sex crimes and he went to the Vietnamese coastal resort of Vung Tau, where he lay low until his presence was uncovered in 2005 by British tabloid newspapers.The two girls he was eventually convicted of abusing initially said he had raped them — a crime which carries the death penalty — but were reportedly paid off. Gadd was arrested trying to leave Vietnam and stood trial. He pleaded not guilty, claiming he had been teaching the girls English. He was sentenced in March 2006