THIS is the evil, leering smirk of pop pervert Gary Glitter just days before he's released early from jail and let loose on the world.

Bald, wispy-bearded and looking like the raddled old paedophile he is, the shamed star raises a sinister eyebrow and poses for a snap in his striped prison uniform.

Now astonishingly the arrogant child sex beast says he wants to come home to England so he can get treatment in one of OUR hospitals for a series of ailments!

HAVE YOUR SAY: SHOULD GLITTER ROT IN JAIL?

But wizened Glitter, 64, is STILL unrepentant over the chilling child sex crimes that landed him three years behind bars in Vietnam, claiming: I did nothing wrong.

In a sickening jail interview he admitted: "I'm thankful to the Vietnamese Government for letting me out three months early."

But it's not all bad news. Whining Glitter revealed how he was:

CRIPPLED with diarrhoea so bad he had to be admitted to hospital,

STRUCK deaf soon after being incarcerated, and,

REFUSED use of the prison phone in case he tried to hoodwink local guards by making calls in English.

He said: "I want to get out of here ASAP to take care of my health. I don't feel 100 per cent.

"I have hearing problems. Conditions aren't perfect here so I can't cure my illness as I'd like to. I need access to a UK hospital. When I had diarrhoea recently they had to send me to a hospital because the medical ward couldn't fix me here."

Disgraced Glitter, real name Paul Gadd, famously vowed he'd never return to Britain, where he was jailed in 1999 for hoarding child porn. But now it suits him he wants to come back to use our doctors.

Set to walk free from Thu Duc jail on August 19-thanks to an amnesty to celebrate the Lunar New Year-Glitter will be deported and flown home to London.

Pressure

In a jail meeting room he spoke without a thought for the two schoolgirl victims he molested. The glam rock monster outrageously showed his true colours and spat:

"But I WASN'T guilty. My sentence was due to public pressure and the press."

Glitter was arrested in 2005 after the News of the World tracked him to seaside resort Vung Tau. He could have faced the firing squad for having sex with a child.

But after paying compensation to his two young victims, aged 10 and 12, he was convicted on lesser molestation charges.

And Glitter's had a soft time inside. "I'm on a diet," he crowed, sipping an iced drink. "Every day I eat fruit and veggies with bread and margarine. That'll do. And on occasions like Christmas they've served what I requested.

"They treat me very well. When it rains they put out the umbrella for me.

"At first I had to sleep on a concrete slab like other prisoners. But I got back problems and they sent me to a special ward with a mattress so I feel better.

"My one complaint would be over the telephone. I wanted to ring home but couldn't, although other prisoners can. The reason is no one can understand and monitor my calls in English."

Deluded as ever, Glitter then talked of his plans to finish off a half-completed comeback album.

"It'll be rock 'n roll," he said. "And in the long term I want to live in Hong Kong or Singapore. I have a lot of friends there."

Lucky them. Just warn them to lock up their children.