Christopher Paul Neil (born February 6, 1975[4]), better known as Mr. Swirl Face,[5][2] is a Canadian teacher who was convicted of child sexual abuse.

[7] In 1998, he graduated from a seminary in Mission, British Columbia with an arts degree, but did not receive the necessary approval to enter the Catholic priesthood[8] due to a lack of qualifications.

[8] Neil appeared in more than 200 photographs depicting child sexual abuse, which surfaced on the Internet and led to a worldwide manhunt known as Operation Vico.

Neil was working as an English teacher at Kwangju Foreign School in the city of Gwangju,[11] South Korea, at the time but fled with a one-way ticket to Thailand once he was publicly identified.

[6] 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.

[23][24][25] 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.

"[2][27] Thai police expanded the hunt for potential child sex offenders by publishing photographs of 50 Western suspects identified by international authorities, many of whom are German citizens.

[32] After authorities received more than 250 leads,[33][34] Wayne Nelson Corliss was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in New Jersey[31] and charged with producing child pornography.