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Christopher Paul Neil was born on 6 February, 1975 in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada, is a Canadian convicted serial child molester. Discover Christopher Paul Neil's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 49 years old?

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Occupation (English) School teacher
Age 49 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 6 February 1975
Birthday 6 February
Birthplace New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Nationality Canada

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1975

Christopher Paul Neil (born February 6, 1975), also known as Mr. Swirl, Swirl Face, or Vico (nicknamed after the Interpol operation concerning him), is a Canadian child molester.

He was the subject of a highly publicized Interpol investigation of the sexual abuse of at least 12 young boys in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand, primarily owing to the Internet release of pornographic images depicting the abuse.

1993

He attended Handsworth Secondary School and graduated in 1993.

1997

Christopher served as a chaplain at military cadet camps in Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan from 1997 to 2000, where he counselled teenagers.

After serving as a chaplain, Neil moved to South Korea to teach English.

1998

In 1998, he graduated from a seminary in Mission, B.C. with an arts degree, but did not receive the necessary approval to enter the Catholic priesthood due to him not being qualified.

Following this, he chose to go into teaching instead.

2003

He remained in South Korea for several years before moving to Thailand in 2003.

In Thailand, Neil began working as an English teacher at a private school in Bangkok.

He also began traveling to Vietnam and Cambodia, where he took pornographic photographs of young boys.

Neil appeared in more than 200 photographs depicting child sexual abuse, which surfaced on the Internet and led to a worldwide manhunt known as Operation Vico.

Neil's face had been obscured by a digital swirl in the photographs, but German computer experts at the Federal Criminal Police Office were able to reconstruct the original picture using techniques similar to that used by Neil, but in reverse.

Several of these reconstructed pictures were posted on Interpol's website and led to more than 350 people contacting the organization, five of whom identified the man as Neil.

Neil was working as an English teacher at Kwangju Foreign School in the city of Gwangju, South Korea, at the time but fled with a one-way ticket to Thailand once he was publicly identified.

2007

He was arrested by Thai police in October 2007.

Neil was born in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada, where he was raised.

Christopher was later educated in Maple Ridge, British Columbia.

He was arrested in the Nakhon Ratchasima Province, in the Isan region of northeast Thailand, on October 19, 2007.

Thai police reportedly located the fugitive by means of a trace on the mobile phone of his 25-year-old Thai partner, who was himself identified in the beach town of Pattaya.

2008

On January 11, 2008, the start of his trial was set for March 10.

He pleaded not guilty.

On March 10 it was found that Neil did not have a lawyer.

One was assigned to him and the trial was adjourned to June 2.

He was sentenced on August 15, 2008, to 39 months in prison and a $1,780 fine.

His original sentence of six years was reduced by about half because he later admitted to the crime.

On November 24, 2008, his sentence was extended by six years following his conviction for molesting a second child.

On May 6, 2008, Interpol launched Operation IDent, its second public appeal to identify an unknown child abuse suspect, who featured in almost 100 images showing the sexual abuse of at least three boys between six and ten years old.

Unlike Neil's case, there had been no apparent attempt to obscure the perpetrator's face in these images.

After authorities received more than 250 leads, Wayne Nelson Corliss was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in New Jersey and charged with producing child pornography.

2012

After five years' incarceration in Thailand, on September 29, 2012, Neil returned to Canada, whereupon he was immediately arrested at Vancouver International Airport under a Criminal Code 810.1 warrant.

On October 3, 2012, he was released from custody on strict conditions.

2013

On August 2, 2013, Neil was arrested at his home for breach of recognizance.

He pleaded guilty in October.

Child pornography was found on his laptop and his mobile phone.

2014

His sentencing occurred on May 6, 2014, at which time he received a prison sentence of three months' plus three years of probation for breach of conditions, namely "possessing devices capable of accessing the internet".

Neil was already in custody, having been denied bail on April 10, 2014, pending a criminal trial stemming from additional child sex abuse offences he is alleged to have committed in Cambodia.

2015

In December 2015, he was sentenced to five and a half years in prison by a British Columbia court, which was later reduced to 15 months.

2017

He was released in March 2017 and is currently living in Vancouver with a court-ordered restriction on certain behaviours including "contact with minors in person or on the internet [...] [and] possessing or accessing any electronic device or from getting any other person to do so on his behalf."

Thai police expanded the hunt for potential child sex offenders by publishing photographs of 50 Western suspects identified by international authorities, many of whom are German citizens.

Other nationalities include British, Australian, Italian, Finnish, and American.