Gary Glitter could make a return to the UK

In an interview with the BBC, Glitter said he still envisages coming back to the UK.

BBC home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford looks at what might happen if he did return.

Q: Are the authorities making preparations in case he comes back to the UK?

A: The Home Office will not talk about individual cases but we can say with some certainty that there is a plan now to deal with him on arrival in Britain.

It will involve the probation services, the police services and there will be a large operation.

Q: What action would be taken?

A: First of all he would be put on the sex offenders' register. The public would be protected under multi-agency public protection panels which make sure that sex offenders are looked after.

He could get a sex offences protection order which is like an Asbo but for sex offenders which puts restrictions on what they can and cannot do and, most crucially, where they can and cannot go.

He will face quite a lot of restrictions on return to Britain.

Q: Is prosecution in the UK a possibility?

A: It is more than a possibility. There is a reasonable likelihood of it.

He cannot be charged in this country with sex offences for which for which he's already stood trial in another country.

But if there are any other sex offences that they find evidence of overseas, either through people who were not taken through the Vietnamese courts or if there are any photographs found on his computer, the police will go through that.

If there is a possibility of a further prosecution, they are likely to go for that.