Serial killer Charles Sobraj released, sent to the Department of Immigration

French serial killer Charles Sobhraj nicknamed ‘the serpent’ and ‘the bikini killer’, whose string of murders across Asia in the 1970s was portrayed in the Netflix series “The Serpent”, has been released from the central jail, Kathmandu.

According to central jail sources, Sobraj has requested the Central Jail administration in Kathmandu to keep him away from the media. Central Jail has sent Sobhraj to the Immigration Department.

According to a government official, Sobraj will be deported to France from there today itself after consulting his passport and other documents.

Sobhraj, who has been serving a 19-year prison sentence in Nepal, was ordered to be released by the Supreme Court last Wednesday.

He has requested to be allowed to stay at Hyatt Hotel saying some of his French friends are at the Hyatt and he wants to spend some days with them.

A bench of SC Justices Sapana Pradhan Malla and Til Prasad Shrestha issued an order to release Sobhraj who is currently in the central jail in Kathmandu.

Sobhraj, a Frenchman of Indian and Vietnamese parentage committed a string of murders throughout Asia in the 1970s.

He has been lodged in Kathmandu central jail in 2003 on charges of traveling with a false passport and for the murders of American tourist Connie Jo Boronzich, 29, and Canadian Laurent Carrière, 26, in 1975.

He has been implicated in more than 20 killings, served 21 years in prison in India for poisoning a French tourist and killing an Israeli national.

The Supreme Court had sentenced him to life in prison for murdering an American tourist, Connie Joe Bronzich, in 1975 in Nepal. In 2014, he was convicted of killing Laurent Carriere, a Canadian backpacker, and given a second life sentence.