He spent 19 years in jail in Nepal for two murders in 1975 and was freed given his age and for good behaviour.
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.
On Friday, he was driven out of the prison in the capital, Kathmandu, in a blue police vehicle and taken to immigration detention. He was expected to leave for France on Friday, his lawyer Gopal Shiwakoti Chintan told reporters.
Sobhraj is suspected of murdering more than 20 backpackers who were travelling along the “hippie trail” in Asia, including six women in Thailand, some of who turned up dead on a beach near the resort of Pattaya.
Posing as a gem trader, he would befriend his victims before drugging, robbing and murdering them.
His true number of victims, spanning decades and several…
