Gary Glitter went before a Vietnamese court Thursday to appeal his conviction and three-year prison sentence for child molestation.
The 62-year-old former British glam rocker was found guilty March 3 for committing obscene acts with girls aged 10 and 11 at his rented seaside villa in southern Vietnam.
He arrived at the People’s Supreme Court of Appeals in Ho Chi Minh City wearing all black and escorted by Vietnamese police.
“I’m innocent, of course,” he told dozens of foreign journalists before entering the courthouse.
The hearing is closed and the ruling by a three-judge panel will be announced later Thursday.
Glitter, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, was accused of kissing, fondling and “engaging in other physical acts” with the girls at his rented villa in the seaside city of Vung Tau, about 78 miles southeast of Ho Chi Minh City.
He has been in police custody in Vung Tau since Nov. 19, when he was arrested in Ho Chi Minh City trying to board a flight to Bangkok, Thailand.
Glitter was convicted in Britain in 1999 for possessing child pornography. He served half of a four-month jail term.
His attorney, Le Thanh Kinh, has met with Glitter a few times per month since March. Their last meeting was Tuesday. Kinh said Wednesday that Glitter is “feeling good,” has been exercising regularly while in detention and reading The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, which Kinh has brought to him.