‘BIKINI KILLER’ CHARLES SOBHRAJ RELEASED FROM NEPALI PRISON

Fri 23 December 2022:

French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, also known as the ‘Bikini Killer’, has been released from a Nepali jail on Friday (Dec 23).

As per an AFP report, Sobhraj was being transferred to the immigration detention centre ahead of his deportation to France. Sobhraj’s lawyer, however, said his client wanted to get treated in a hospital.

“Once he is taken to the immigration, then it will be decided what would be the next course. He has a heart issue, so he wants to get treatment from the Gangalal hospital,” said Gopal Shiwakoti Chintan.

Nepal’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered Sobhraj to be released after he had been serving a life sentence in the country since 2003.

The court observed that Sobhraj had completed 95 per cent of his prison term and that he should be deported to France within 15 days of release.

Sobhraj, whose life was chronicled in the Netflix series ‘The Serpent’, was expected to be released on Thursday but it took time to complete the pre-release processes that also included a health check-up.

Sobhraj, who is of Vietnamese and Indian parentage, was linked to murders of more than 20 people throughout Asia. His modus operandi was to charm and befriend his victims, who were strangled, beaten or burned.

‘Bikini killer’

Born in Saigon to an Indian father and a Vietnamese mother who later married a Frenchman, Sobhraj embarked on an international life of crime and ended up in Thailand in 1975.

Posing as a gem trader, he would befriend his victims, many of them Western backpackers on the 1970s hippie trail, before drugging, robbing and murdering them.

Suave and sophisticated, he was implicated in his first murder, a young American woman whose body was found on a beach wearing a bikini, in 1975.

Nicknamed the “bikini killer”, he was eventually linked to more than 20 murders.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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