p2pnet news | Crime:- Interpol says it’s identified a man alleged to be a paedophile and who’s been at the centre of an international online man-hunt.

He’s thought to be a 32-year-old Canadian, says Guardian Unlimited.

A picture, originally distorted like the one on the right, was unscrambled and released online and Thai police have now identified him as Christopher Paul Neil, says the story.

It was the first time Interpol appeal of its kind.

Neil was named only three days after the images were published, says Times Online, continuing:

Yesterday, Interpol said the suspect, “photographed abusing children in Vietnam and Cambodia,” was identified by five sources from three continents as a man teaching English at a school in South Korea.

Interpol launched the online search after its initial investigation across 186 countries had failed.

“We believe he is still in Thailand and we are now collecting information from neighbouring countries where he committed crimes of paedophilia so we can issue an arrest warrant for him,” Guardian Unlimited has Colonel Apichart Suribunya, of the Thai police saying.

Police have been hunting the man for three years, ever since German police found online pictures of him abusing under-age Asian boys, it adds.

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Also See:
online man-hunt – Do you know this man?, October 9, 2007
Guardian Unlimited – Thai police name suspected web paedophile, October 16, 2007
Times Online – Police close in on internet paedophile, October 16, 2007

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