IF BEING overweight and follicularly challenged is a crime, half the occupants of the marina at this exclusive Costa del Sol resort deserve to be locked up. But last week the tabloid vigilantes of Fleet Street were chasing one particular hairless tub of lard among the luxury yachts.

Their quarry was Paul Gadd, aka Gary Glitter, one-time popular musician and convicted possessor of child pornography, or, as the Sun put it on Tuesday when it revealed that the perpetrator of such songs as "My Gang" had sailed his 33ft boat into Sotogrande seven weeks ago, "a fat, bald, evil pervert in paradise".

Clearly the sin would have been less if he had been slim and well- coiffured, but Glitter's ...