#Charles sobhraj victims series#
The BBC series 'The Serpent' became a hit on Netflix in 2020. He received a life sentence in August 2004 and would serve 19 years of a 20-year sentence. After Chowdhury's mysterious disappearance, authorities thought Sobhraj might have had something to do with it because he was the last person believed to have seen him alive. He was held in a high-security prison in Nepal from 2003. Among Sobhraj's possible victims is also his partner, Ajay Chowdhury. Known as "The Serpent" or "Bikini Killer" for his ability to disguise himself and to escape from many prisons, he targeted women backpackers. He was quickly recognised and arrested in Kathmandu for the 1975 murders of two tourists, Canadian backpacker Laurent Armand Carriere and American Connie Joe Bronzich. Sobhraj is believed to have committed up to 20 killings between 19, in which he drugged his victims and either poisoned, strangled or burned them. Sobhraj's extraordinary life of crime, readers will no doubt recall, was brought to the screen two years ago in The Serpent, a gripping eight-part series starring Tahar Rahim with Jenna Coleman.
#Charles sobhraj victims serial#
His victims included backpacking tourists in India and Thailand. Nepal’s top court on Wednesday ordered the release from jail of Charles Sobhraj, the infamous French serial killer who inspired the award-nominated TV series The Serpent. His mother married a lieutenant in the French Army and although the young Charles was taken in by his mother’s new husband, he felt sidelined and unwelcome in their growing family.
Sobhraj has been linked to more than 20 killings between 19, in which the victims were drugged. He had a turbulent childhood Born to an Indian father and Vietnamese mother, Sobhraj’s parents were unmarried and his father subsequently denied paternity. Sobhraj had already spent 20 years in prison in India. Frenchman Charles Sobhraj, a serial killer portrayed in a hit BBC drama. Nepal's supreme court has ordered that he now be deported to France. He was finally jailed for the 1975 murder of two American and Canadian tourists in Kathmandu and was serving two life sentences. Sobhraj's life was portrayed in the BBC drama The Serpent. But he escaped from New Delhi’s high-security Tihar jail after drugging guards with sedative-laced sweets in 1986. Colombo (News 1st) – Famed French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, who went on a crime spree in 10 countries in the 70s, and killed tourists in several of them, is to be released from a Nepal jail where he has languished for four decades due to his age – 78 years – and good behaviour. His Arrest In India Charles was arrested in India in 1976 and was sentenced to 12 years of prison term in Delhi for the murder of French tourist Jean-Luc Solomon.
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