Canadian paedophile suspect Christopher Neil arrives at a Bangkok court for the start of his trial on charges of molesting children in Thailand.

BANGKOK, THAILAND (MARCH 10, 2008) (REUTERS) - Christopher Neil, the paedophile suspect experts identified by unscrambling his digitilised "swirly face" from images of abuse posted on the Internet, went on trial in Bangkok on Monday (March 10).

Clean-shaven Neil, dressed in an orange-brown prison uniform, ankles in shackles and handcuffed, arrived at the court by prison bus and walked through a crowd of reporters.

He was then taken to a holding cell to await his trail.

The 32-year-old was arrested in the north of Thailand over four months ago after German computer experts unravelled the digital swirling pattern Neil had used to disguise his face on the Internet, which triggered an international man hunt.

The pictures of Neil abusing children are thought to have been taken in Vietnam and Cambodia, so fall outside Thai jurisdiction. But after he fled to Thailand from South Korea, where he had been teaching, two Thai teenagers came forward and accused him of paying for oral sex when they were nine and 14, grounds for prosecution under Thai law.

He faces charges of luring children away from their parents, detaining or holding them, molesting under-age children and producing and distributing pornographic material.

Prosecutors and the defence will on Monday present a list of witnesses to the court.