Charles Sobhraj

Frenchman Charles Sobhraj, a serial killer portrayed in a hit BBC drama, will be released and deported.

During that time he briefly managed to escape from prison by drugging the prison guards. It later became the title for a hit BBC and Netflix series about the killer, which was released in 2020. His lawyer says he could be released as soon as Thursday.

Charles Sobhraj is believed to have killed at least 20 people in Afghanistan, India, Thailand, Turkey, Nepal, Iran and Hong Kong during the 1970s, ...

He was also called "the serpent" because of his ability to disguise himself following his escape from a prison in India in the mid-1980s, where he was serving 21 years on murder charges. - He was sentenced to life in prison in Nepal for murdering an American backpacker - He was nicknamed "the serpent" for his ability to disguise after a prison escape in India

Nepal's top court on Wednesday ordered the release from jail of Charles Sobhraj, the infamous French serial killer who inspired the award-nominated TV ...

It tells how for years, he evaded the law across Asia as he allegedly drugged, robbed and murdered backpackers along the so-called “hippie trail” – while former Dutch diplomat Herman Knippenberg worked with authorities to capture him. His true number of victims is unknown. The court made the decree on the grounds of his age and health, according to the court’s spokesperson Bimal Paudel.

Nepal's Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the release of Charles Sobhraj, a French national known as the "bikini killer" who police say is responsible ...

* Sobhraj returned to France following his release in India. His lawyers said the charge against him was based on assumption. He had served 19 years of his 20-year sentence. * Sobhraj was sentenced in India to 21 years in jail on murder charges. He was caught and returned to jail until 1997. * Sobhraj, 78, was born to an Indian father and Vietnamese mother.

Charles Sobhraj, a convicted killer who police suspect was responsible for a string of murders in the 1970s and 1980s, is due to be freed on Thursday after ...

He was later caught and jailed there until 1997. Sobhraj was born to an Indian father and Vietnamese mother. He returned to France following his release in India but in 2003 was arrested at a casino in Kathmandu in connection with the 1975 murders of Bronzich and Carriere. He was also known as "the serpent" because of his ability to disguise himself following his escape from a prison in India in the mid-1980s. Register for free to Reuters and know the full story KATHMANDU, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Charles Sobhraj, a convicted killer who police suspect was responsible for a string of murders in the 1970s and 1980s, is due to be freed on Thursday after nearly 20 years in prison in Nepal, his lawyer said.

A French murderer who admitted to killing several western tourists is due to be set free from prison in Nepal after the country's supreme court ordered his ...

However, he was jailed in India before he could stand trial on those charges. He is thought to have mostly targeted young backpackers on the hippie trail and also became known as the Bikini Killer as the bodies of several female victims were found in swimwear. Nepal has ordered the release of a killer linked to the deaths of a string of backpackers on the hippie trail in the 1970s.

The Supreme Court ruling also said he had to leave the country within the next 15 days but did not specify to where. He was serving two life sentences in Nepal ...

Sobhraj was held for two decades in New Delhi’s maximum-security Tihar prison on suspicion of theft but was deported without charge to France in 1997. The Frenchman has in the past admitted killing several Western tourists and he is believed to have killed at least 20 people in Afghanistan, India, Thailand, Turkey, Nepal, Iran and Hong Kong during the 1970s. He was serving two life sentences in Nepal for the murders of American and Canadian backpackers.

Sobhraj was convicted for the murders of American tourist Connie Jo Bronzich and Canadian Laurent Carriere. Nepal's Supreme Court ordered his release due to ...

For reasons that remain unclear, Sobhraj then returned to Nepal, where he was wanted by police for murder. Judges ordered Sobhraj’s release within days on the basis of his old age, good conduct, and the length of prison term already served, according to a ruling issued by Nepal’s Supreme Court. Sobhraj spent 21 years imprisoned in India from 1976 after being convicted of theft.

French serial killer Charles Sobhraj expected to return to France but will not leave prison until Friday, lawyer says.

A decade later he was also found guilty of killing Bronzich’s Canadian companion. It was sheer luck that I recognised him,” Nathan told AFP on Thursday. “I think it was karma.” He was arrested in India in 1976 and ultimately spent 21 years in jail there, with a brief break in 1986 when he escaped and was caught again in the Indian coastal state of Goa. He was soon spotted in Kathmandu’s tourist district by journalist Joseph Nathan, now an adviser to the Himalayan Times daily, and arrested in a casino. Suave and sophisticated, he was implicated in his first murder, that of a young American woman whose body was found on a beach wearing a bikini, in 1975.

NEW DELHI: It was in 1986 that Charles Sobhraj scripted his great escape from Tihar by offering drug-laced sweets to prison staff on the pretext of ...

He was tried and convicted in the case,” he said. A popular businessman Rajender Sethi was also well connected to Sobhraj as he was also dealing with his case in UK and wanted Sobhraj’s help,” he said. In 2014, he was convicted of killing Laurent Carriere, a Canadian backpacker, and given a second life sentence. Hall, a UK national who was arrested in a case of drugs, was indebted to Sobhraj as he had got Hall released based on false medical papers. It was around 3-3:30 pm when the incident took place,” he added. He drugged them, made them unconscious, then robbed them and many a times managed to kill them,” he said. Terming Sobhraj as ‘a heartless and ruthless character’ who sometimes pretended to be spiritual, intellectual, soft gentleman, the officer said he took full advantage of having mixed parentage. Amod Kanth, founder of Prayas NGO, was then the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime), was tasked with investigating the case, that had led to a huge furore, nationally and internationally. “With the help of his friend David Hall, he managed to get a drug called Larpose and got it mixed with burfi in heavy doses. In those times, since cooking was allowed inside the jail, he got sweets prepared for his birthday. In those days since there were no limitations on the number of guests, all sorts of people used to come and meet him during the day,” he added. He scripted his great escape in March 1986, only to be caught after 22 days by Delhi Police.