He had served 19 years of his 20-year sentence. * Nepal's Supreme Court ordered his release due to his age.
#Charles sobhraj murders serial#
A French serial killer known as The Serpent, convicted of several tourist murders in Asia in the 1970s, has arrived back in. Last year, the BBC and Netflix jointly produced a series dramatizing his crimes. Charles Sobhraj has been in jail in Nepal since 2003. * Sobhraj's alleged crimes across Asia have spawned books and at least one movie. The Serpent, a new BBC/Netflix drama series coming to the streaming service in April, tells how for years, Sobhraj evaded the law across Asia as he allegedly drugged, robbed and murdered. He had been held in a high-security jail in Kathmandu since 2003. Several years later he was also found guilty of killing Bronzich's Canadian friend, Laurent Carriere. Charles Sobhraj, a French serial killer who police say is responsible for a series of murders in the 1970s and 1980s, has been released from prison in Nepal. His lawyers said the charge against him was based on assumption. Sobhraj denied killing the American woman, whose body was found in a wheat field near the Nepali capital. In 2003 he was arrested at a casino in Nepal's capital Kathmandu and convicted of murdering American backpacker Connie Jo Bronzich. He had a keen grasp of human nature, and used his charms to control people and situations over his entire storied life. * Sobhraj returned to France following his release in India. To those who have known him personally, serial killer Charles Sobhraj appeared affable and charismatic. Tahar Rahim (right) as an older Sobhraj in the miniseries. Charles Sobhraj (left) after being granted bail in a New Delhi court in 1997. Both he and Marie-Andrée Leclerc were convicted of murder and sentenced to 12 years in an Indian prison. He was caught and returned to jail until 1997. Sobhraj was charged with the murder of Frenchman Jean-Luc Solomon.
Adept at changing his appearance, he earned another moniker, "the serpent", after his escape from prison there in the mid-1980s. * Sobhraj was sentenced in India to 21 years in jail on murder charges.
#Charles sobhraj murders trial#
He was, however, jailed in India before he could stand trial on those charges. French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, 78, who police say was responsible for a string of murders in the 1970s and 80s, was released from prison in Nepal after 19 years behind bars.
* Thailand issued a warrant for the arrest of Sobhraj in the mid-1970s on charges of drugging and killing six women, all wearing bikinis, on a beach at Pattaya. Charles Sobhraj, a serial killer known as The Serpent who preyed on young travellers in Asia in the 1970s, is known to have killed at least 9 real life victims.
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