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  Bangkok Manhunt after Internet Child-Sex Suspect Identified

Reuters, carried in The Standard
October 17, 2007

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=17&art_id=55244&sid=15838219&con_type=1

Interpol identified a suspected serial pedophile being hunted across Asia as Christopher Paul Neil, a Canadian now believed to be in hiding in Bangkok.

Neil, 32, whose digitally swirled face in internet photos of child sex abuse was unscrambled by German police computer experts, arrived in Thailand from South Korea - three days after the pictures were released.

He taught at an international school in Bangkok three years ago.

In neighboring Cambodia, where police say Neil was photographed sexually abusing small boys, border authorities have been alerted in case he tries to sneak out of Thailand by land.

Neil, who had been known only by the codename "Vico," was captured on security cameras at Bangkok airport on Thursday. He looks significantly older and balder and is wearing glasses.

South Korea's Yonhap news agency said a student at a school in the southern city of Gwangju had identified Neil as his teacher for two months.

Neil, who went to the University of British Columbia, taught social studies, was generally liked but had a temper.

 
 

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