Convicted sex offender Gary Glitter will remain behind bars after losing a Parole Board bid.
Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was jailed for 16 years in 2015 for sexually abusing three schoolgirls between 1975 and 1980.
The 79-year-old was automatically released in February last year but was put back behind bars six weeks later after breaching his licence.
The decision follows a hearing held behind closed doors last month.
In a decision published on Wednesday, the Parole Board said: “After considering the circumstances of his offending, the lack of progress made while in custody and on licence, and the other evidence presented at the hearing, the panel was not satisfied that release at this point would be safe for the protection of the public.
“Rather, the panel considered that Mr Gadd was appropriately located in custody where outstanding levels of risk could be addressed.”
The hearing last month took place in secret after a request for proceedings to be heard in public was rejected.
Glitter was first jailed in the late 1990s for possessing thousands of child abuse images and was expelled from Cambodia in 2002 amid reports of sex crime allegations.
In March 2006, he was convicted of abusing two girls, aged 10 and 11, in Vietnam and was jailed for two-and-a-half years.
Crimes stretching back to the 1970s were uncovered after Operation Yewtree was launched in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal.