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OTTAWA : The Canadian arrested in Thailand accused of sexually abusing boys across Southeast Asia denies the allegations, a news channel which interviewed him at a Thai police station reported here Saturday.
The suspect, Christopher Paul Neil, said the evidence that Thai authorities have would not stand up in a Canadian court and he had a "good defence," according to a reporter for Broadcaster CTV, Steve Chao, who interviewed him in Bangkok.
Neil was arrested in northeastern Thailand after investigators at the global force Interpol launched a rare public global hunt for a man seen in 200 Internet photos abusing a dozen young Asian boys.
They identified Neil after decrypting photographs of the man, whose face was blurred out.
Neil, 32, could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted of abusing a nine-year-old Thai boy in Bangkok four years ago, Thai police said.
They said the boy has identified Neil several times.
"He appeared very reserved, soft-spoken but also tense," Chao said of Neil in an article on CTV's website. "He said he slept very little in his first night in a Thai prison, and that a concrete floor was his bed."
Neil, a school teacher originally from a suburb of Vancouver, also said he didn't wish to be extradited to Canada. Chao quoted Neil as saying: "I'm not the kind of person who could survive long in a Canadian jail." - AFP/ch
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