(Wednesday August 20, 2008 06:16 PM)
Paedophile pop star Gary Glitter has been refused entry to Hong Kong by Chinese authorities after flying to the country from Thailand, the Foreign Office confirmed.
Glitter, who is travelling under his real name Paul Gadd, boarded a Thai Airways flight from Thailand to the city on Wednesday afternoon.
The TG 602 flight arrived in the Chinese territory at 11pm local time (1600 BST).
Glitter had spent more than 20 hours in the transit lounge at Bangkok airport following his release from a Vietnamese prison On Tuesday.
He flew from Ho Chi Minh City to Bangkok on Tuesday night and was due to board a connecting flight to Heathrow but refused.
He was refused entry into Thailand and immigration officials said that Glitter would be taken to a detention centre if he continued to refuse to leave the country.
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