Charles Sobhraj, a Frenchman of Indian and Vietnamese parentage, was on Friday released from a Nepalese prison on the apex court's order after serving 19 years in jail on murder charges.
Charles Shobhraj Released From Nepal Jail: The French national, also known as The Serpent and Bikini Killer , has been released by the order of the Supreme Court of the Himalayan nation on the grounds of old age and deteriorating health condition. Since 2003, he is serving his sentence in Nepali jail on the charge of murdering two American tourists.
I can live exactly as I want, the man once counted among Asias biggest law breakers is believed to have said according to the book The Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj by Richard Neville.Sobhraj was born in Saigon in former French Indochina present-day Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
The seasoned French assassin and fraudster Charles Sobhraj is expected to return to his country of citizenship on grounds of health concerns from Nepal prison which housed him since 2003 for the string of murders he committed in the 1970s .The .