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Disgraced paedophile Gary Glitter has allegedly attempted to hide his fortune from a victim after giving his son more than £130,000. Glitter, 81, was declared bankrupt last year after failing to hand over £508,000 in High Court damages for raping her when she was 12.

The sex offender has pleaded poverty in a bid to avoid paying compensation to the woman, despite earning at least £1million in royalties in the last three decades, according to court papers. Her lawyers are now trying to seize his assets, the Daily Mirror reported. It comes after Glitter, real name Paul Gadd, gave his son, also called Paul, £138,896 from his pension income since it first emerged publicly that she was suing him, the documents state.

Lawyers say they have evidence that "attempts have been made to divert" the paedophile's assets from his estate, including requests that his pension payments go to his son, according to the Daily Mirror.

The pair were previously reported to have fallen out after Glitter was first convicted of child sex offences in 1999.

But the papers claim the child of Glitter's marriage to Ann Murton plays an active role in managing his dad's cash while occasionally visiting him in HMP Channings Wood, not far from his Devon home.

Lawyers have had to begin enforcement proceedings against Glitter, effectively forcing him into bankruptcy so an insolvency practitioner can be appointed to trace his assets.

Matt Carter and Ed Thomas, of international accounting and advisory firm Mazars, have been appointed as joint trustees in the bankruptcy.

Court documents lodged at Bristol County Court show they accuse Glitter of a "lack of candour and assistance" over his alleged failure to co-operate with investigators. They also claim he repeatedly lied to officials.

Glitter set up Machmain Limited in 1987 to handle royalties, before transferring his shares to a Caribbean tax haven company in 2005, shortly after his arrest in Vietnam for child sex offences.

In November 2023, Machmain cleared the mortgage on his £2million sixth-floor flat in a Victorian red-brick mansion block near Baker Street in central London.

His son, now 61, became a "person with significant control" and was appointed to the company's board last October.

Glitter was jailed for 16 years in 2015 for sexually abusing three schoolgirls between 1975 and 1980.

He was automatically released from HMP The Verne, a low-security prison in Portland, Dorset, in February 2023 after serving half of his fixed-term determinate sentence.

Less than six weeks after walking free, Glitter was put back behind bars when police monitoring showed he had breached his licence conditions by reportedly trying to access the dark web and viewing downloaded images of children.