Police keen to extradite pedophile if he wakes from coma in Brazil

Victoria and NT police want to question Christopher John Gott if he is found to be medically fit by doctors in Rio de Janeiro.

Victoria Police are looking to interview Mr Gott over an ­alleged indecent assault at a ­Melbourne primary school.

Detectives want to extradite an Australian pedophile currently in a coma at a Brazilian hospital.

Victoria and Northern Territory Police want to question Christopher John Gott, 63, if he is found medically fit enough by doctors in Rio de Janeiro.

Gott, who was caught after 22 years on the run, may never face justice because he has severe brain injuries from a car accident in January and doctors do not expect him to wake up.

The former Australian school teacher’s crimes included sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of 14 and the sexual abuse of a 16-year-old.

An NT Police spokeswoman said they had spoken to international authorities about extraditing Gott over the breaking of his parole conditions.

“NT Police were conducting an ongoing investigation regarding Mr Gott and the original parole breach,” she said.

“Since the incident in Brazil, we have engaged with international authorities to explore the possibility of an extradition. Given his medical condition we will continue to monitor the situation with a view of taking action if possible in the future.”

Victoria Police are looking to interview Mr Gott over an ­alleged indecent assault at a ­Melbourne primary school.

“A 63-year-old former Fitzroy man is wanted by Yarra Crimes Unit detectives in relation to an indecent assault at a Fitzroy primary school in 1983,” a Victoria Police spokesman said.

Gott taught schoolchildren in Melbourne and the NT from the 1980s to the early 1990s.

He was arrested in 1994 over 17 child sex offences and sentenced to six years’ jail in the NT.

The convicted pedophile was released on parole in April 1996, two years into his sentence, and told authorities he was getting a bus to Melbourne to live with his parents.

He never arrived in Melbourne and he was last seen getting off a bus in Adelaide, after which he vanished.

Gott was on Copacabana Beach early this year when a car veered off the road and hit him and 16 other people.

He was left in a coma and Brazilian authorities said at the time he was a 68-year-old man named Daniel Marcos Philips, based on his passport.

Rio police learned the man in hospital had been teaching in a local international school for more than 20 years but they had no records of a Daniel Marcos Philips entering their country, and contacted the Australian Federal Police through Interpol.