Former British glam rocker Gary Glitter sits on a flight from Ho Chi Minh City to Bangkok after his release from a Vietnamese prison on Tuesday. (Aude Genet/AFP/Getty Images)

A British Foreign Office spokesman confirmed Thursday that disgraced rocker Gary Glitter is on his way home to London.

The former British glam rocker and convicted child molester was forced to return to the U.K. after being barred from several Asian countries following his release from a Vietnamese prison this week.

Earlier Thursday, Thai police said that the disgraced performer had agreed to board a flight for London, ending two days of airport-hopping.

The 64-year-old singer, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, this week completed a nearly three-year sentence on child molestation charges in Vietnam.

On Tuesday, Vietnam deported him and authorities took him from prison straight to a Ho Chi Minh City airport. He was slated to stop in Thailand en route to England.

Once in the Bangkok airport, however, Glitter complained of an earache and chest pains. Still, Thai immigration officials denied him entry into the country. He refused to get on his scheduled flight.

Though a medical check eventually cleared him, he refused to board another London-bound flight on Wednesday.

He subsequently flew to Hong Kong, where officials denied him entry, forcing him to return to Bangkok on Thursday.

'No choice for him now'

"Thailand is not allowing him to enter the country and Hong Kong is turning him back so there is no choice for him now,' said Thai Police Col. Worawat Amornwiwat.

"It is the responsibility of Thai Airways to take him out of the country [and return him to England]," Worawat said.

British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said this week that Glitter will be met at the airport by police and be added to the country's sex offenders registry, which would make him subject to monitoring.

Smith also said she felt he should be issued a foreign travel order banning him from travelling overseas.

A Vietnamese judge convicted Glitter of committing "obscene acts with children" in March 2006. Although he was initially sentenced to three years in prison, his term was reduced to two years and nine months.

Glitter rose to fame in the 1970s with hits like Rock and Roll (Part 2), Do You Wanna Touch Me and I'm The Leader Of The Gang (I Am!). He said in June that he planned to return to his musical career following his release from prison.

With files from the Associated Press