[mani]

Former pop star Gary Glitter has left Bangkok on a flight to Hong Kong, Thai police have said.

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, arrived in Bangkok, Thailand, to catch a connecting flight to the UK.

But he boarded a Thai Airways flight to the Chinese territory Hong Kong after refusing to leave Bangkok airport to return to the UK, police said.

Thai immigration officials had barred him from entering Thailand after he said he wanted to remain in the country or go to another Asian country.

The Home Office has confirmed Glitter was issued with a new British passport in recent months, which will make it easier for him to enter a third country.