Paul Gadd is one of 12 new cases joining 155 civil claims against the former publisher of the News of the World

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Gary Glitter's estranged son is suing News International, alleging the News of the World hacked his phone in the years following his father's conviction for downloading child pornography.

The claim, which has just been submitted to the high court, is one of 12 new cases joining 155 civil claims already before Mr Justice Vos and scheduled to go to trial next June.

Among the other new claimants against News of the World over alleged phone hacking are former footballer and BBC sports presenter Garth Crooks, former England footballer Kenny Sansom, Sunday Express editor Martin Townsend and animal rights protester Robert Cogswell, plus Michelle Verroken, believed to be the former head of anti-doping for UK sports, and John Temple. Four new anonymous claims have also been lodged with the high court.

Paul Andrew Gadd was born in 1964 and is the son of Glitter, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd. But he fell out with his father following his conviction for sex offences in 1999 when the former glam rock star was sentenced to four months in prison and listed as a sex offender.

Glitter was subsequently found guilty of molesting girls aged 10 and 11 by a Vietnamese court in 2006.

He was a regular visitor to his son's home in south Devon before he was jailed but when released Gadd told him he was no longer welcome there.

Glitter was a regular target of the tabloids. He was back in the headlines this month after a woman alleged she saw him molesting a 13-year-old girl in Jimmy Savile's dressing room at the BBC in the 1970s.

It was reported in 2000 that Glitter's son requested his father stay away from this house after he was released.

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