Edited sentence: At Bangkok he claimed that he had tinnitus and a heart condition, and refused to board the flight to London despite the efforts of British police sent to escort him, although they had no jurisdiction to take action.At least nineteen countries, including Cuba, Cambodia and the Philippines, announced that they would refuse to admit Glitter, and on 21 August the Thai authorities stated that he had agreed to return to the UK.British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said he should be given a Foreign Travel Order (FTO) banning him from overseas travel: "We need to control him, and he will be [controlled] once he returns to this country.Glitter was released from Thu Duc prison in southern Binh Thuan province on 19 August 2008.Glitter's Vietnamese lawyer, Le Thanh Kinh, said that his client intended to return to the UK, although he had also expressed interest in moving to either Hong Kong or Singapore.He arrived back in the UK at Heathrow Airport at 7:10am on 22 August 2008, where he was met by British police officers.He was escorted under police guard to Tan Son Nhat Airport in Ho Chi Minh City and put on board a flight to London via Bangkok.He was refused entry to Thailand and threatened with deportation to the UK.However the Hong Kong authorities also refused to admit him and he returned to Thailand the next day.In the UK it was reported that he would be placed on the Sex Offenders Register on his return.On his return to the United Kingdom, Glitter was ordered to sign the Sex Offenders Register for life, and stated an intention to appeal against this decision; on 16 January 2009, however, it was announced that he had abandoned this move.On the evening of 20 August he took a flight to Hong Kong, where he requested medical treatment saying he was suffering a heart attack