Canadian Christopher Neil, 32, was picked up in northern Thailand just ten days after his photo was published on the internet.

Interpol is turning to the internet for a second time to try to catch a suspected paedophile. It has been attempting to track down a man for the past two years after Norwegian police discovered computer photographs of him apparently sexually abusing young boys. The nationality of the man is not known. But Interpol's Anders Persson is hoping another worldwide internet appeal will have the same success as the last one."We came across these photos in Spring 2006, when the Norwegian national police sent these photos to us," he said. "They were found in a seized computer in an investigation in Norway, and they asked Interpol to support them in the identification of this man. So we engaged our international network of 50 police investigators from 20 different countries to help us and collect more images. So right now we have about 800 images where the victims, or the abuser, or the crime scene, in one way or another, is linked to each other. And the abuser can be seen in 100 images."Last year Interpol managed to unscramble a photo of another man's face, which it published online."We published the photos of this last case, which we called "Vico" on a Monday morning and, after eight hours, we had a name of a suspect coming in from a close friend of this man. That was not enough to decide if that was the right guy or not, because it was difficult for us just from a photo to determine if it was the same guy. But after another day we had five different independent sources giving us a name of the same person, and they also provided us with photos of this man. And with that range of images we were quite sure that was our man," Persson said.Canadian Christopher Neil, 32, was picked up in northern Thailand just ten days after his photo was published on the internet.

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