Former glam-rock star Gary Glitter was greeted by mobs of photographers and police officers when he arrived in Britain on Friday after being deported from Vietnam for molesting children.

Glitter, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, arrived at Heathrow Airport in London at about 7 a.m. local time, wearing a white T-shirt and a baseball cap. The former rock star chose to return to his native country after being barred from Hong Kong and Thailand. His lawyer declared that he had been unfairly convicted and said the singer intended to clear his name.

“His trial in Vietnam was a charade, a travesty of justice. He never got a fair trial,” the lawyer, David Corker, said in a televised news conference outside the court in west London, according to Bloomberg. “This morning was an opportunity for him to come before English justice for the first time to make those points.”

Glitter, 64, spent 33 months in a Vietnam prison in Ho Chi Minh City for sexually molesting two girls, aged 11 and 12. He had a previous conviction in Britain for possessing child pornography.

Corker said his client had been ordered by the court to sign onto Britain’s sex offenders registry in the next three days. Glitter is also required to keep the authorities informed of his whereabouts and address, as well as of plans to travel away from his home for more than three days.

In the 1970s, Glitter gained glory with the song “Rock and Roll (Part2),” which was a hit in Britain as well as in the U.S. In his glory days, he used to perform in shiny jumpsuits, wearing platform shoes and sophisticated wigs.