Not many more stops surely til he has to face the music.
BBC NEWS | UK | Glitter refused Hong Kong entryGlitter refused Hong Kong entry
Glitter has suffered ill-health in prison
Former pop star Gary Glitter has been refused entry to Hong Kong after being deported from Thailand.
He was earlier deported from Vietnam after spending almost three years in jail for sexually abusing two girls.
Glitter, 64, real name Paul Francis Gadd, had arrived in Bangkok, Thailand, to catch a connecting flight to the UK.
But he boarded a Thai Airways flight to Chinese territory Hong Kong after Thai authorities refused him entry and threatened to deport him to Britain.
Thai Airways confirmed Glitter left Bangkok on flight number TG 602, landing in Hong Kong at 11pm local time (1600 BST).
A spokeswoman for the Foreign Office said it was up to Chinese authorities to decide whether they allowed him to enter Hong Kong.
Medical plea
Immigration officials had earlier barred him from entering Thailand after he said he wanted to remain in the country or go to another Asian nation.
This was despite a plea for medical treatment as Glitter said he was suffering a heart attack.
Gary Glitter walking through Bangkok airport terminal
Glitter sold millions of records as a glam rock star in the 1970s, with hits including I'm the Leader of the Gang.
Thai police had earlier told Reuters news agency they would be "deporting him to his home country, England, unconditionally".
The BBC's Jonathan Head says 19 countries have already said they would refuse Glitter entry.
The fact he has flown to Hong Kong is a blow to the UK authorities who want to get him home and on the sex offenders register, our correspondent says.
I think these [new paedophile controls] are sensible and proportional ways of toughening up what is already a very tough system 
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith
Q&A Managing UK sex offenders
If Glitter does return to the UK, he will be met at the airport by police and required to sign the register.
He will then be subject to monitoring and have to tell the police where he plans to live and if he planned to go abroad. He could also face an order prohibiting him from going near children or using the internet.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said on Tuesday it was her view that Glitter should be given a Foreign Travel Order (FTO) banning him from overseas travel.
Travel bans
Ms Smith has also announced plans to tighten controls on the movements of paedophiles.
Proposed measures include increasing the length of time an FTO can apply from six months to up to five years, and automatically confiscating the passport of anyone subject to an order.
At present, police are only allowed to rely on evidence from the previous six months about the risk an individual poses, but that time period would also be extended under the plans.
"I think these are sensible and proportional ways of toughening up what is already a very tough system. I think that's what we owe to children in this country and to children abroad," Ms Smith said.
The home secretary's announcement came after children's charity Ecpat UK accused the government of "turning a blind eye" to British sex tourists.
The charity said it was too easy for nationals convicted abroad to stay under the radar of British police upon their return.
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The British Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, issued the passport which allowed him to travel freely, despite having the power to turn down passport applications if it is not "in the public interest", on the basis of somebody's past behaviour and likely future conduct.
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Is that the sound of G&T sipping heads rolling I hear?
