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Two women strike an awkward pose as paedophile Gary Glitter leans in to take a picture of them.

The shamed glam-rock star, 68, had made repeated attempts to talk to the diners on the table next to him at a ­restaurant before taking the snap.

An onlooker said: “He was trying his best to impress the women on the other table but they weren’t having any of it.

"He kept attempting to spark up a conversation and at one stage he got up and took a picture of them.

"They didn’t seem to have any idea who he was.”

Glitter – real name Paul Gadd – spent three and a half hours eating and drinking outside the Italian restaurant in Central London on Thursday night.

Wearing a black hat, dark glasses and a scruffy lumberjack shirt, the bearded beast did his best to impress the women as he joked with a friend.

In the end, the only ­attention he got was from a road sweeper who stopped for a word.

The onlooker said: “He had a glass of red wine on the go all night and was tucking in to the food.

“At one stage he even began spoon feeding his friend.

"He was a bit unsteady on his feet when he got up to leave.”

In 1999, Glitter was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment at Snaresbrook crown court in East London for downloading 4,000 child pornography images.

Glitter has been living in a Central London flat since he was deported from Vietnam in 2008, where he was jailed for sexually assaulting two girls aged 10 and 11.

The former star’s music – which included No1 hits like I’m The Leader Of The Gang – has largely been absent from the airways since his crimes were exposed.

Last November he was given the green light to roam the world after his travel ban expired.

He has been spotted venturing out in a variety of disguises.

In the past, Glitter has been monitored by a police sex offences team who visited him at home every six weeks.

He remains on the sex offenders’ register for life and must inform officers of his intention to travel abroad for three days or longer.

He has to give them details of his ­location on his first night.

From then on he is free to travel as he wishes.