Gary Glitter's child-molestation sentence has been reduced by a Vietnamese court.
The reduction cuts the former glam rocker's three-year jail term by three months as part of a nationwide Lunar New Year prison amnesty, a judge said.
Glitter, convicted of molesting two Vietnamese girls, will now be released in August 2008, said Tran Thi Thien Huong, a judge on the deciding panel.
Vietnam traditionally reduces the sentences of inmates with good prison records just before Tet, as the Lunar New Year is known in Vietnam.
Glitter, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, was convicted in March 2006 of committing "obscene acts with children".
The incidents involved two girls, aged 10 and 11, from the southern coastal city of Vung Tau.
He has been jailed since November 2005 and is currently being held at the Thu Duc prison in Binh Thuan province.
Huong said the panel balanced the seriousness of Glitter's crime against his good prison record.
Under Vietnamese law, the panel could have reduced Glitter's sentence by as much as 18 months. But prison authorities had recommended just a three-month reduction, and the judges agreed.
Glitter was arrested in November 2005 in Vung Tau, where he had been living for about six months. He was convicted in Britain in 1999 of possessing child pornography, and served half of a four-month jail term.
