Serial killer The Serpent, Charles Sobhraj, to be free from jail in Nepal despite links to 20 killings
A FRENCH serial killer who was portrayed in the hit show The Serpent is set to be released from prison - despite links to at least 20 deaths.
Charles Sobhraj has been ordered to return to France within 15 days after spending 19 years behind bars for the murder of two tourists in Kathmandu in 1975.He served 19 years for the murders of two touristsSobhraj is linked to the deaths of up to 24 other people, mainly backpackers, between the 1970s and 1980s.
He claims to have killed at least 20 young Westerners who were travelling through Asia by drugging their food or drink. But his conviction in 2004 for the murders of an American woman, Connie Jo Bronzich, and her Canadian backpacker friend, Laurent Carriere,l was the first time he had been found guilty in court.READ MORE WORLD NEWS
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