I think everyone deserves compassion, Chris B, even those we may not like or who disgust us, hard though it may be. And everyone counts. I'm not making special excuses for Garry Glitter or what he is alledged to have done.
I don't know what Phil Ochs would have thought in this particular case but listen to his song about the reformed killer Paul Crump which gives some idea about that very hard thing compassion.

Guest, Why are paedophiles always male, always rapists and usually killers as well; according to The Sun anyway.

Janine