By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 4:02 PM on 22nd December 2010
- Authorities claim he continued abusing children and posting videos online after fleeing Britain
A suspected British paedophile wanted for abusing children as young as 18 months has been arrested in Thailand after more than a decade on the run.
David Taylor, 66, is also accused of selling child porn online.
He will be extradited to Britain, where he was arrested in 1998 and charged with 35 child sex offences.
Behind bars: David Taylor has been in Thailand since fleeing after his arrest in Britain in 1998
He fled to Thailand and allegedly continued to abuse children, recording his disgusting activities to put on the internet.
Taylor was charged with keeping more than 10,000 pornographic images of children on his computer at his home in Leicestershire.
The images allegedly included boys being tortured, sexually abused by adults and having sex with dogs.
Thai and British investigators tracked Taylor to Nakhon Ratchasima, north-east of Bangkok, where he was arrested on Sunday at a local post office where he was renting a mailbox.
A Thai court had issued a warrant for his arrest and extradition in 2001, on a request from British authorities, who accuse him of sexually abusing children aged between 18 months and 12 years old.
Thai police say they seized a computer and DVDs suspected to contain child porn and explicit photos of Thai children and other nationalities.
In Thailand, Taylor 'lured children to have sexual activities and released video clips on the internet,' the Thai immigration bureau said.
'He confessed that he would find children to take pictures of and then sell the images on the internet.'
The British Embassy confirmed the arrest.
Suspect: David Taylor, 66is wanted by British authorities over allegations he molested boys and girls aged between 18 months and 12 years old
He looks so mild and ordinary, like some harmless sweet old grandfather. People are so easily deceived by appearances. If people just learned to trust their intuition and feelings about others instead of social stereotypes that men like this one hide behind....
- anon, UK, 22/12/2010 15:41
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