After exhibiting “good behavior” behind bars in Nepal, the notorious murderer known as “The Serpent,” who was thought to be accountable for a sequence of gruesome slayings across Asia during the 1970s has been given his freedom. The heinous acts committed by this killer were memorialized in a BBC drama highlighting these unimaginable events.
Charles Sobhraj, an infamous 78-year-old serial killer, has recently been released from a Nepalese prison after spending two decades behind bars. Much to everyone’s surprise though, he left Kathmandu solo and headed towards France instead of traveling with his 44 years younger wife Nihita Biswas.
The heinous crimes that Sobhraj committed across Asia in the 1970s prompted the BBC drama, “The Serpent”. In 1986 he was photographed boarding a plane departing Nepal for his home country France. Despite being incarcerated for these offences, Sobhraj has always maintained his innocence and threatened to sue anyone who had a hand in putting him behind bars.
Soaring from Nepal to France, a convicted serial killer made an infamous proclamation while conversing with someone on the plane – one that was documented and later used as evidence. He allegedly stated:
“When I came in [went to prison], I didn’t do anything. I am innocent in those cases, ok? So I don’t have to feel bad for that, or good. I am innocent. It was built on fake documents.”
He continued: “The district judge, without calling a single witness … and without giving notice [to] the accused to present an argument, he wrote the verdict. I’m doing well. I have a lot of things to do, and I have to sue people, including in Nepal.”
Nepal’s supreme court saw fit to offer Sobhraj a reprieve from prison due to his deteriorating health and exemplary conduct. His sentence, originally life in confinement, was reduced as most sentences of this magnitude cap out at twenty years anyway; by then he had already served the majority of it.
Doctors have diagnosed the French serial killer with cardiology issues and will conduct thorough evaluations upon his arrival in France.
In 2017, during an incident in Kathmandu, a murderer was taken to the hospital with his much-younger wife. The doctors worked diligently on him and proceeded to perform a lifesaving coronary operation for the criminal; otherwise, he would have succumbed due to medical complications.
“His wife has said he may need further surgery, and he will be closely monitored by doctors after he lands,” proclaimed a source associated with the convicted serial murderer.
Should the French serial killer known as The Serpent have been released by Nepalese authorities, or should he remain imprisoned for life to answer for his heinous transgressions?
