VUNG TAU, Vietnam (AP) -- A court convicted former British rocker Gary Glitter Friday of obscene acts with two Vietnamese girls and sentenced him to three years in prison. A melee erupted when Glitter shouted "I'm innocent."
Reporters and onlookers, allowed into the courthouse in southern Ba Ria-Vung province to hear the verdict following the closed two-day trial, pressed toward Glitter in a scene of pandemonium as police fended them off and escorted him out of the building.
"I haven't done anything. I'm Innocent. It's a conspiracy," Glitter shouted.
Glitter, 61, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, was convicted Friday of committing obscene acts with the girls at his rented seaside villa in southern Vung Tau last year. They were ages 10 and 11 at the time.
He was then sentenced to three years in prison, followed by deportation from Vietnam. The court was closed to the public to protect the girls' privacy.
The court verdict cited graphic testimony from the girls that Glitter had fondled and molested them, and took showers with them naked, in his rented home and in nearby hotels.