Christopher Neil smiles as he makes his way to a prison bus at criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand on Friday, Jan. 11, 2008. (AP / Apichart Weerawong)"No1 DANGER MAN' IN SHACKLES"
By Mark Dowdney
11/03/2008
Grinning in the dock, teacher Christopher Neil stands accused of being one of the world's most dangerous paedophiles.
Interpol branded him their most-wanted child abuser after officers began to unravel hundreds of digitally distorted "swirly face" images of a man who abused children as young as six.
Neil, 32, was shackled as he appeared in court in Bangkok, Thailand.
He pleaded not guilty to four charges of molesting and distributing pornographic images of two Thai boys.
If found guilty, he could get 20 years. He told reporters: "I hope there is justice in Thailand."
Neil was seized in Thailand last October due to a trace on the mobile phone of his 25-year-old transvestite boyfriend, who identified himself to reporters only as Ohm.
The pictures - of which 70 have been unscrambled - are thought to have been taken in Vietnam and Cambodia, where Neil was teaching. After he fled to Thailand, two Thai brothers accused him of paying for sex when they were nine and 14.
Ohm said: "He never did anything to my nieces or nephews when he visited my family.
"He was a romantic man. I believe he did not do it. I will wait for him."
Canadian Neil could be extradited after serving any sentence as Cambodia and Vietnam want to quiz him. The trial was adjourned until June 2.
By Mark Dowdney
11/03/2008
Grinning in the dock, teacher Christopher Neil stands accused of being one of the world's most dangerous paedophiles.
Interpol branded him their most-wanted child abuser after officers began to unravel hundreds of digitally distorted "swirly face" images of a man who abused children as young as six.
Neil, 32, was shackled as he appeared in court in Bangkok, Thailand.
He pleaded not guilty to four charges of molesting and distributing pornographic images of two Thai boys.
If found guilty, he could get 20 years. He told reporters: "I hope there is justice in Thailand."
Neil was seized in Thailand last October due to a trace on the mobile phone of his 25-year-old transvestite boyfriend, who identified himself to reporters only as Ohm.
The pictures - of which 70 have been unscrambled - are thought to have been taken in Vietnam and Cambodia, where Neil was teaching. After he fled to Thailand, two Thai brothers accused him of paying for sex when they were nine and 14.
Ohm said: "He never did anything to my nieces or nephews when he visited my family.
"He was a romantic man. I believe he did not do it. I will wait for him."
Canadian Neil could be extradited after serving any sentence as Cambodia and Vietnam want to quiz him. The trial was adjourned until June 2.
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