Interpol enlists public to identify paedophile

INTERPOL sought public help yesterday in identifying a suspected paedophile, revealing a technique to unscramble digitally altered images to show the face of a man seen in internet photos sexually abusing young boys in Vietnam and Cambodia.

Specialists succeeded in producing identifiable images of the man from the original pictures, where his face was a digitally blurred whirl, the international police organisation said.

Anders Persson, a Swedish police officer who oversees Interpol’s database of images of child abuse, said releasing the photos sent “a quite clear message” to criminals that they can be identified through web postings.