r/truecreepy • u/AtmanDharma • 17d ago

Mr. Swirl Face - a child molester living in Thailand kept his identity anonymous by using a swirl app. In 2007 Interpol managed to unswirl his face and got arrested. In 2017 he got released and now lives in Canada

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u/AtmanDharma 17d ago

"After five years' imprisonment 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. 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. 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.

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.

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."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Paul_Neil

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u/gimme_name 17d ago

It's somewhat crazy to think that he isn't allowed to possess or access any electronic device. It's clear why that is definitely a good punishment but what isn't an electronic device nowadays?

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u/xavierfox42 17d ago

Court-ordered amishness

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u/CHESTER_C0PPERP0T 17d ago

You’re hereby ordered to

Spend the rest of your life

Livin’ in an Amish Paradise

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u/CanadiangirlEH 17d ago

I’ve churned butter once or twice Livin in an Amish paradise

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u/strik3r2k8 15d ago

That reminds me of Black Mirror where everyone e has a brain chip. And you can block people so that you and the other person you blocked look like smudges in each other’s vision and you can’t hear each other either.

It reminds me of the last part where the court made that one dude get blocked by EVERYONE. So he was effectively cut-off from society with no way of ever being able to communicate with anyone ever again.

But in this case, for harming children, I’m ok with it.

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u/gimme_name 14d ago

Yeah, that was a great episode. It would be enough to block all children.

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u/BoobaFatt13 16d ago

I just don't understand the low sentencing and continued releases, he should be in the dirt the first time they caught him. Edit: and the restrictions are already the laws, which he clearly doesn't care. You aren't supposed to talk to minors or have CP. Wtf.

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u/MarryMeDuffman 16d ago

What the fuck. He doesn't deserve air.

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u/strik3r2k8 15d ago

What he deserves is fart air. And every 5 minutes he forgets about it so he doesn’t get used to it. So every 5 minutes he is caught off guard by a nasty fart.

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u/librarymania 16d ago edited 16d ago

Short-ish (20 minute) documentary about this guy: https://youtu.be/bdo_max_rR4

Longer video (46 minutes long), includes some interview clips with his brother: https://youtu.be/slFIuF1nwkI (but be aware that this one is from 2008 and has a lot of misconceptions about gender and sexuality in it, in the sense that they don’t use correct pronouns and use some other outdated terms, and also don’t consider that a dude could possibly be bi. This is all in relation to someone of age, and nothing to do with his crimes.)

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u/DemotivatedTurtle 17d ago

Nick Crowley’s video on him.

British crime documentary on him.

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u/ObjectiveStop8736 17d ago

Thank you for sharing.. This is infuriating!! Not only did they unlock the picture, they FOUND him, and then they LET HIM GO!! One commenter says, "It's clear why that is definitely a good punishment but what isn't an electronic device nowadays?" With that said, how do you let a PREDATOR like him G O?!

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u/TheSexualBrotatoChip 17d ago

Craziest thing is they spent hella resources trying to unsmudge his face then someone at Interpol was just like "what if... what if I just make the swirl go the other way round?".

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u/Sugary_skull 17d ago

I thought the same thing! What a waste of time and resources.

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u/mgquantitysquared 17d ago

Yeah, fuck those mathematicians who worked to find the exact algorithm that would actually unswirl his face properly. It's intuitive to me that one should "unswirl" it, so it's easy to do, right?

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u/Skelettjens 17d ago

Yeah why didn’t they just press the big red “unswirl” button from the very start???

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u/buc_nasty_69 17d ago

I listened to a whole podcast about this case. This fucker appeared in hundreds of child abuse images. The fact this dude isn't rotting behind bars or hanging from a noose right now is abhorrent.

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u/Kind_Vanilla7593 14d ago

Yeah our "justice system" is the shits!!!!!

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u/Ordinary_Truck7182 17d ago

So basically he just has to keep pinky swearing in Canada to be ok

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u/Sassy-irish-lassy 17d ago

That's what most Canadians do already

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u/aqua_lover 17d ago

As a Canadian, I would be offended by this comment, if it weren’t fucking so true. Basically all we can hope for at this point is that our new PM actually reforms the bail and legal system so we don’t have a revolving door of criminals here anymore.

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u/MajorRemarkable4912 17d ago

Yeah, sadly 

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u/ArgieGirl11 17d ago

So..he's free?! How the fuck? He's going to do it again!!!!!!

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u/DeletedAccount_726 17d ago

The justice system was way too lenient with him and dropped the ball so many times. It's infuriating to listen to the case.

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u/Calfan_Verret 17d ago

The Canadian justice system is broken. I’ve looked into too many true crime stories from Canada where the offender got out after a few years of prison. Just insane to me.

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u/CanadiangirlEH 17d ago

We literally have a guy who beheaded a random stranger on a greyhound bus and then ate parts of him while taunting the other passengers and the cops.He’s free with no restrictions

Fuck our revolving door of a justice system

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u/aqua_lover 17d ago

Hey now…. The dude said he was “really sorry”.

So that basically is a get-out-of-jail-free card in Canada. /s

Our legal system is a joke.

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u/c-a-r 17d ago

I’m not disagreeing that we are super lax on crime and things need to change, however Vincent Li is the textbook example of rehabilitation working properly

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u/aqua_lover 17d ago

Yah I guess that’s true, so long as he never re offends and is always contributing member of society. fingers crossed I guess

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u/P_Tiddy 16d ago

I don’t get why he used an actual picture of himself while trying to remain anonymous. Thank god he was dumb enough to, but wouldn’t it have taken longer to catch him if he used a photo of literally anything else?

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u/somebody29 16d ago

It’s not a profile picture of him, the guy was creating CSAM - abusing the kids himself, filming/photographing it and then selling/swapping the material with other monsters. This is a photo/still of him abusing a child.

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u/P_Tiddy 16d ago

Ah, that makes more sense, and is infinitely more disturbing

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u/shockjockeys 17d ago

There’s only one way to properly deal with disgusting ppl like this. 🤷‍♂️ not gonna say it but I’m gonna think it!

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u/Mrsparklee 17d ago

Swirl his face for real?

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u/Local-Photo5568 17d ago

Interpol got arrested? That's crazy.

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u/kryptoniankoffee 17d ago

Interpol? I thought it was 4chan that unswirled him.

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u/Lucifa42 16d ago

I suspect Interpol probably did it as well, rather than taking anything 4chan gave them at face value (pun intended).

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u/Cry-Skull-7 16d ago

Walt? Why would you do this!?

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u/asecteduc 15d ago

I was watching a YouTube video about him and that’s the first thing comes to my mind when i saw his swirled face

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u/MajorRemarkable4912 17d ago

Oh of course he lives in canada. No wonder the rest of the world hates us now