Reuters
Canadian paedophile suspect Christopher Neil, unmasked by nifty computer work by German police and a unique Interpol internet appeal, was arrested in rural Thailand on Friday after a week-long man-hunt.
Thai police said they had picked up the 32-year-old, accused of raping young boys in Vietnam and Cambodia several years ago, in the province of Nakhon Ratchasima, 250km northeast of Bangkok and well off the normal tourist trail.
Neil was no stranger to Thailand, having once taught in a Bangkok language school, but his hiding place was revealed by a trace on the mobile phone of his Thai boyfriend, tourist police chief Chuchart Suwannakom told Reuters.
"They went together to different provinces, probably on the run, and the last call made was from Nakhon Ratchasima," Chuchart said. "So I sent my men there."
Thai police issued a warrant for Neil's arrest on Thursday, exactly a week after he fled South Korea, following accusations by two Thai teenagers of him paying them for oral sex when they were 9 and 14, grounds for prosecution under Thai law.
Neil was to be paraded before reporters at national police headquarters in Bangkok later on Friday.
Detectives in various countries had been trying to track Neil down since German police discovered photographs on the internet three years ago of a man sexually abusing 12 boys in Vietnam and Cambodia.
His face had been scrambled with a digital swirling pattern, but German police computer experts managed to unravel the disguise and Interpol issued an unprecedented worldwide appeal through the Internet for information on who the man was.
More than 350 people came forward and Neil was identified by five sources from three different continents, Interpol said.
Neil abruptly left South Korea, where he was teaching, after Interpol broadcast his cleaned-up photograph and flew to Thailand, where he was photographed with shaved head and glasses by airport security cameras.
Thailand and its neighbours immediately alerted border posts in case he tried to sneak across a land frontier as Thai police launched a man-hunt to rival their search a year ago for JonBenet Ramsey murder suspect John Mark Karr.
Karr was arrested in a run-down Bangkok hostel and sent back to the United States, where he was eventually cleared of any involvement in Ramsey's murder, one of the most infamous unsolved US crimes.
Neil could face up to 20 years in jail if convicted in Thailand.
It is not know whether Canada - which can prosecute its citizens for child sex crimes committed abroad - will seek extradition.
Cambodia and Vietnam might also want to question him.
Thai police said they had picked up the 32-year-old, accused of raping young boys in Vietnam and Cambodia several years ago, in the province of Nakhon Ratchasima, 250km northeast of Bangkok and well off the normal tourist trail.
Neil was no stranger to Thailand, having once taught in a Bangkok language school, but his hiding place was revealed by a trace on the mobile phone of his Thai boyfriend, tourist police chief Chuchart Suwannakom told Reuters.
"They went together to different provinces, probably on the run, and the last call made was from Nakhon Ratchasima," Chuchart said. "So I sent my men there."
Thai police issued a warrant for Neil's arrest on Thursday, exactly a week after he fled South Korea, following accusations by two Thai teenagers of him paying them for oral sex when they were 9 and 14, grounds for prosecution under Thai law.
Neil was to be paraded before reporters at national police headquarters in Bangkok later on Friday.
Detectives in various countries had been trying to track Neil down since German police discovered photographs on the internet three years ago of a man sexually abusing 12 boys in Vietnam and Cambodia.
His face had been scrambled with a digital swirling pattern, but German police computer experts managed to unravel the disguise and Interpol issued an unprecedented worldwide appeal through the Internet for information on who the man was.
More than 350 people came forward and Neil was identified by five sources from three different continents, Interpol said.
Neil abruptly left South Korea, where he was teaching, after Interpol broadcast his cleaned-up photograph and flew to Thailand, where he was photographed with shaved head and glasses by airport security cameras.
Thailand and its neighbours immediately alerted border posts in case he tried to sneak across a land frontier as Thai police launched a man-hunt to rival their search a year ago for JonBenet Ramsey murder suspect John Mark Karr.
Karr was arrested in a run-down Bangkok hostel and sent back to the United States, where he was eventually cleared of any involvement in Ramsey's murder, one of the most infamous unsolved US crimes.
Neil could face up to 20 years in jail if convicted in Thailand.
It is not know whether Canada - which can prosecute its citizens for child sex crimes committed abroad - will seek extradition.
Cambodia and Vietnam might also want to question him.
3 comments:
just another white devil child molester. they're everywhere in cambodia. people bow to them whereever they go. khmer don't care about white monkeys molesting their poor, underpriviledged children.
don't tell me about democracy and human rights if you can't even protect the human rights of the child beggars in cambodia. these white monkeys are supposed to our country's saviors....why else would poeple bow to them whereever they go.
PUT HIM WHERE THE BIG BOYS ARE, THEY'LL TAKE CARE OF HIS PERVERTED ASS. Children have NO CHOICE ! ! !
That aint gonna solve the problem. And it can't get better either but worse and worse because the colonialists are not admitting that they have problem with morality, and that is a threat to the future of our Asian nations and citizen, and that is also why we must not repeat our past mistake by being divided and weak for them to abuse us again sometime in the future when things are getting rough for them to handle.
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