PAEDOPHILE Gary Glitter’s parole hearing will be held in private after an application for it to be public was rejected.

The Parole Board said an open hearing risked identifying the disgraced pop star’s victims and may “retraumatise” them.

Glitter, 79, was recalled to prison in March — six weeks after his release from HMP The Verne, in Dorset — for breaching licence conditions by allegedly viewing images of kids.

Lawyers for one sought the public hearing.

The Parole Board said it would consider arranging for victims to view the private hearing.

It is also not known whether all the victims Glitter abused supported the application for the hearing to take place in public.

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He had served half a 16-year sentence imposed in 2015 for sexually ­abusing three schoolgirls between 1975 and 1980.

Glitter’s fall from grace began in the 1990s when he was jailed for possessing child abuse images

He was expelled from Cambodia amid sex crime allegations and convicted of abusing girls in Vietnam in 2006.

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