'Swirl Face' Christopher Paul Neil Gets Six More Years in Thai Court

A Canadian paedophile who was tracked down after 'swirled' images of him were unscrambled has been convicted of abusing a second child.

A global search led to Christopher Paul Neil being arrested in Thailand in October last year and in August he was sentenced to more than three years in prison for abusing a 13 -year old Thai boy.

Thailand's Criminal Court has since found him guilty of three more charges of abusing the first victim's brother, who was nine at the time.

The verdict, which has not had not been previously released, found Neil guilty of abuse and illegal detention of a minor.

The Judge gave the former teacher a nine-year prison sentence, but he will serve only six years and his two sentences will run consecutively.

The court said: "The suspect cooperated during the trial and his testimony was somewhat useful, therefore the court commuted his sentence by one-third on each count."

Neil was ordered to pay the second boy 50,000 baht (£950) in compensation.

He had confessed to molesting the older brother but denied the charges in his second case.

Neil, 33, from Vancouver, was arrested after Interpol launched a public appeal seeking help in identifying a man seen in about 200 graphic online photos abusing Asian boys.

The man in the pictures had created a digital swirl to hide his face but German computer experts were able to reconstruct the images.

Child welfare experts saw Neil's arrest as a sign Thailand was working to overcome its reputation as a breeding ground for paedophiles, but believe he should have received a tougher sentence in August.

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