The French national, also known as ‘The Bikini Killer’, has been accused of murdering more than 20 backpackers in Asia.
Charles Sobhraj, a serial killer known as “The Serpent”, who police say is responsible for a string of murders in the 1970s and 1980s, is to be released from prison in Nepal, the Himalayan country’s Supreme Court has ruled.
The 78-year-old French national has served 19 years in prison for the murders of an American and a Canadian backpacker. Life sentences in Nepal are 20 years.
He has admitted killing at least 20 young Western backpackers across Asia, usually by drugging their food or drink, but his 2004 conviction in Nepal was the first time he was found guilty in court.
Thailand first issued a warrant for his arrest in the mid-1970s on charges of drugging and killing six women on a beach at Pattaya.
Sobhraj is known as “The Bikini Killer” and “The…
