![]() A decade later he was also found guilty of killing Bronzich's Canadian companion. Released in 1997, Sobhraj retired to Paris but resurfaced in 2003 in Nepal, where he was spotted in Kathmandu's tourist district and arrested.Ī court there handed him a life sentence the following year for killing US tourist Connie Jo Bronzich in 1975. Sobhraj ultimately spent 21 years in jail, with a brief break in 1986 when he escaped and was caught again in the Indian coastal state of Goa. He was arrested in India in 1976, after a French tourist died from poisoning at a Delhi hotel, and was sentenced to 12 years for murder. It became the title of a hit series made by the BBC and Netflix that was based on his life. Sobhraj's sobriquet, "The Serpent", came from his ability to assume other identities in order to evade justice. His victims were strangled, beaten or burned, and he often used the passports of his male victims to travel to his next destination. Charles Sobhraj has spent more than 35 years behind bars but also has a penchant for running away from his sentence. This meant that the statute of limitations on his punishments in Thailand, that of 20 years, ran out. Charles Sobhraj, a convicted killer who police say is responsible for a string of murders in the 1970s and 1980s, was released from a Nepal prison on Friday after nearly 20 years behind bars. He was eventually linked to more than 20 killings. In a calculated move though, he was caught a month after his ‘escape’ and was jailed till 1997. Suave and sophisticated, he was implicated in his first murder, that of a young American woman whose body was found on a beach in Pattaya wearing a bikini, in 1975. His modus operandi was to charm and befriend his victims - many of them starry-eyed Western backpackers on a quest for spirituality - before drugging, robbing and murdering them. the return to his country within 15 days."Īfter a troubled childhood and several prison terms in France for petty crimes, Sobhraj began travelling the world in the early 1970s and wound up in the Thai capital Bangkok. "If there is not any other pending cases against him to keep him in the prison, this court orders his release by today and. "Keeping him in the prison continuously is not in line with the prisoner's human rights," read a copy of the verdict seen by AFP. The Supreme Court ruled Sobhraj, 78, who has been in prison in the Himalayan republic since 2003 for murdering two North American tourists, should be freed on health grounds. ![]() ![]() Nepal's top court ordered on Wednesday the release of Charles Sobhraj, the French serial killer portrayed in the Netflix series "The Serpent" who was responsible for a string of murders across Asia in the 1970s. In this file photo taken on JFrench serial killer Charles Sobhraj (center) is escorted by Nepalese police at a district court for a hearing on a case related to the murder of Canadian backpacker Laurent Ormond Carriere, in Bhaktapur on June 12, 2014. ![]()
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