Reuters

Bangkok, Oct 19:  Canadian paedophile suspect Christopher Neil, unmasked by nifty computer work by German police and a unique Interpol Internet appeal, was arrested in rural Thailand on Friday after a week-long manhunt
 
Thai police said they had picked up the 32-year-old, accused of raping young boys in Vietnam and Cambodia several years ago, in the province of Nakhon Ratchasima, 250 km (150 miles) northeast of Bangkok and well off the normal tourist trail.

Neil was no stranger to Thailand, having once taught in a Bangkok language school, but his hiding place was revealed by a trace on the cell phone of his Thai boyfriend, tourist police chief Chuchart Suwannakom told Reuters.

"They went together to different provinces, probably on the run, and the last call made was from Nakhon Ratchasima," Chuchart said. "So I sent my men there."

Thai police issued a warrant for Neil's arrest on Thursday, exactly a week after he fled South Korea, after two Thai teenagers accused him of paying for oral sex when they were 9 and 14, grounds for prosecution under Thai law.

He was to be paraded before reporters at national police headquarters in Bangkok later on Friday.