Convicted Australian paedophile jailed for assaulting three boys is arrested after being caught working in a SCHOOL in Thailand

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An Australian paedophile who has served jail time for assaulting three Indonesian boys as young as eight-years-old was found on Wednesday working as an international teacher in a secluded Thailand school.

The Royal Thai Police and Australian Federal Police tracked down Peter Dundas Walbran, 59, to the Narinukun public school in Ubon Ratchathani – remote north-east Thailand – and were seen escorting him to a police car after an 18-month manhunt.

A horde of photographers and journalists gathered to see Peter, who immediately told cameras that he was ‘ok’ before shooing them away with his hand and becoming increasingly angry as reporters followed him to the police car.

Convicted Australian paedophile Peter Dundas Walbran (pictured) was found working at a school in north-east Thailand on Wednesday after more than a year on the run

The Royal Thai Police and Australian Federal Police tracked down Peter (pictured in a light blue shirt behind dark blue uniformed police officer) to the isolated area of Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand and took him into custody of suspicion of

A horde of photographers and journalists gathered to see Peter (pictured in a light blue shirt behind dark blue uniformed police officer), who immediately told cameras that he was ‘ok’ before shooing them away with his hand

A tip led police to Narinukun public school where Peter was hired in May 2015 and oversaw 70 students in the school’s international program – there are 4,000 children in the entire school

‘Have a good look Peter, yeah we found you – we found you,’ a cameraman shouts as reporters throw questions at him.

Peter has not been arrested or charged but it being detained by police for suspicion of child pornography, according to ABC.

A tip led police to the school where Peter was hired in May 2015 and oversaw 70 students in the school’s international program – there are 4,000 children in the entire school, according to former detective Glen Hulley, founder of Project Karma, a group that helps locate sex offenders in South East Asia.

‘Have a good look Peter, yeah we found you – we found you,’ a cameraman shouts as reporters throw questions at him (pictured fourth from the left with a bald head and light blue shirt)

Peter, an Australian and New Zealand citizen, was convicted in 2012 of assaulting three boys between the ages of eight and 12 while living in Lambok, Indonesia, in the mid-1990s (pictured by the white poles, standing behind an officer in a dark navy shirt and a bald head)

At the time Peter (pictured by the white poles, standing behind an officer in a dark navy shirt and a bald head) was working at Australian and British international schools in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, and was accused of abusing children in the nearby island of Bali as well

Peter, an Australian and New Zealand citizen, was convicted in 2012 of assaulting three boys between the ages of eight and 12 while living in Lambok, Indonesia, in the mid-1990s.

At the time he was working at Australian and British international schools in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, and was accused of abusing children in the nearby island of Bali as well.

‘He engaged in a number of sexual offences, some of them involving sexual intercourse with a child who was eight years of age,’ Commander Jamie Strauss, manager of the Australian Federal Police in South East Asia, told ABC.

Peter (pictured in the police car) has not been arrested or charged but it being detained by police for suspicion of child pornography

Peter lured children for several years while living in Lombok, Indonesia, during the mid-1990s to the early 2000s, said AFP in South East Asia manager Commander Jaime Strauss (pictured)

‘He lured that child, who was on the beach in Lombok, and that child was selling artefacts just to survive in Lombok as is the case, lured him to the hotel and did exchange in sexual intercourse with that individual – that happened over a number of years.’

Peter was sentenced to three years in jail in Lombok but was released in May 2014 and deported back to Australia.

Somehow after landing in Australia, Peter didn’t file his sex offender registry documents, got a New Zealand passport and moved to Thailand, Mr Hulley said. 

Indonesia is a popular holiday spot for Australian paedophiles with about 80 tourists arriving every month with the intent of assaulting children, according to Andy Ardian, who works with ECPAT Indonesia - a group that aims to end the sexual exploitation of such children.

So far this year, 120 Australian convicted paedophiles have been stopped from entering Indonesia by police.

Andy Ardian (pictured), who works with ECPAT Indonesia - a group that aims to end the sexual exploitation of such children, has worked with police to stop 120 convicted Australian paedophiles from entering Indonesia this year