News.Scotsman.com – Ed Cropley and Nopporn Wong-Anan
(Bangkok) After a three-year hunt involving cutting edge technology and police on three continents, it was dogged detective work and a Thai transvestite that finally led officers to Canadian paedophile suspect Christopher Neil.
Thai police Colonel Paisal Luesomboon, who arrested Neil in the dusty town of Nakhon Ratchasima, 150 miles north-east of Bangkok, said the 32-year-old knew the game was up and surrendered without a struggle.
“He said he knew he was on an Interpol arrest warrant,” Paisal said yesterday. The only other words Neil spoke were to confirm his name.
His companion at the time of his arrest was a 25-year-old katoey – the Thai word for transvestite or transsexual – in a friendship that proved key to the manhunt.