(11 Jan 2008)
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Bangkok - Jan 11, 2008
1. Canadian paedophile suspect Christopher Paul Neil walking along with other prisoners, leaving court and getting onto bus UPSOUND: (English) Christopher Paul Neil, suspect: "Have a nice day, guys."
2. Cutaway of security
3. Bus leaving
5. Wide of Bangkok's Criminal Court
6. Court emblem on wall
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7. STILL: of suspect paedophile Christopher Neil, in photograph which originally appeared on the web distorted to mask his identity, here seen after interpol had changed it back to original state to reveal identity, released by Interpol on October 15, 2007
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FILE: Bangkok, Thailand - October 11, 2007
8. STILL: of passport of suspected paedophile Christopher Neil taken by Thai immigration authorities following his arrival at Bangkok International airport (photo released by Interpol on October 15, 2007)
9. STILL: of suspected paedophile Christopher Neil's immigration card taken by Thai immigration authorities following his arrival at Bangkok International airport
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10. STILL: Internet image of Christopher Neil
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Seoul, South Korea - 17 October, 2007
11. Pan of Interpol website
12. Close up internet image of Neil from Interpol website
STORYLINE:
A Canadian paedophile suspect arrested last year after a global manhunt pleaded not guilty on Friday to molesting underage boys in Thailand, a Thai court statement said.
Christopher Paul Neil was arrested in Thailand on October 19, 2007 after Interpol issued a worldwide appeal to
identify and apprehend him based on some 200 Internet photos believed to show him carrying out acts of sexual abuse.
In the photos, the face of the perpetrator was digitally obscured, but German police computer experts
managed to unscramble the photos so the man's face was recognisable.
Shackled at the ankles and dressed in a pale orange prison uniform, Neil was smiling as he was ushered out of the courthouse with other defendants into a prison van.
"Have a day nice day, guys," he said, but did not answer any question about the trial or the charges he faced.
The statement said the first hearing will be held on March 10.
Neil said he would find his own defence attorney but the court would appoint him a lawyer if he does not have one by the first hearing, according to a court statement.
Thai police filed charges against Neil in October based on testimony of two boys who testified that they were sexually abused.
When he was arrested, Neil was charged with sexually molesting a 9-year-old boy in 2003.
New charges were filed later after the boy's older brother, who was 14 at the time, also testified that he had been sexually molested by the suspect, said Lieutenant Colonel Manat Thongsimuang, deputy chief of the police's Suppression of Crime Against Children, Juveniles and Women Division.
Interpol issued a worldwide appeal to identify and apprehend him.
He had been sought by police since photos appeared on the Internet allegedly showing him sexually abusing boys in Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand.
The new charges consist of taking away a child under 15 without parental consent with intent to molest, punishable by up to 20 years in prison, and sexual abuse of a child under 15, punishable by up to 10 years, Manat said.
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