They will release the extravagant serial killer “The Serpent” portrayed by Netflix

The Supreme Court of Nepal on Wednesday ordered the release of Frenchman Charles Sobhraj, the serial killer portrayed as “The Serpent” in the Netflix series, responsible for a series of murders across Asia in the 1970s.

The highest instance of the Asian country ruled that Sobhraj78 years old, imprisoned in this Himalayan Republic since 2003 for the murder of two American touristsshould be released for health reasons, according to the verdict consulted by AFP.

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“Keep him in prison continuously is not in line with the human rights of the prisoner”said the Supreme Court.

“If there is no other case pending against you to keep you in prison, this court orders your release for today (Wednesday) and… return to your country within 15 days,” the court ruling continued.

After a troubled childhood and several prison sentences in France for minor crimes, Sobhraj He started traveling the world in the early 1970s and ended up in the Thai capital, Bangkok.

His modus operandi was to be charming and befriend his victims. -many of them Western backpackers on a quest for spirituality- before drugging, robbing and murdering them.

Sweet and sophisticated Sobhraj’s first murder was of a young American woman whose body was found on a Pattaya beach in a bikini, in 1975.

French serial killer Charles Sobhraj is escorted by Nepalese police to a waiting vehicle after a district court hearing in a case involving the murder of Canadian backpacker Laurent Ormond Carriere. (AFP PHOTO/PRAKASH MATHEMA).

evil killer

“He was cultured, courteous”, said Nadine Gires, who befriended Sobhraj when he moved into his building in Bangkok that year.

But soon he began to fear his neighbor, who he disguised himself as a gem dealer to lure money-strapped travelers before drugging, robbing, and killing them.

“Many people were getting sick at home”Gires told AFP last year. “He was not just a con man, a seducer, a tourist thief, but an evil murderer,” continued.

Sobhrajof Indian and Vietnamese origin, ended up linked to more than 20 murders. His victims were strangled, beaten or burned, and he often used the passports of his male victims to travel to their next destination.

the nickname of Sobhraj, “The snake”, came from his ability to assume other identities to evade justice. It became the title of a successful series made by the BBC Y Netflix which was based on his life.

Life imprisonment

He was arrested in India in 1976 after a French tourist was poisoned to death in a Delhi hotel. and was sentenced to 12 years for murder.

Finally, Sobhraj he spent 21 years behind bars, with a brief interval in 1986 when he escaped from prison and was recaptured in the Indian coastal state of Goa.

Released in 1997, Sobhraj retired to Paris, but resurfaced in 2003 in Nepalwhere he was seen in the tourist district of Kathmandu and arrested.

A court handed him a life sentence the following year for killing American tourist Connie Jo Bronzich in 1975.

A decade later he was also found guilty of killing Bronzich’s fellow Canadian.

In jail in 2008, Sobhraj he married Nihita Biswas, who is 44 years his junior and the daughter of his Nepalese lawyer, in a secret ceremony held in prison.

Building on the popularity of the wedding, Biswas starred in India’s hugely popular version of the TV show “Big Brother” in 2011.

Sobhraj has at least one daughter from a previous relationship who lives in France.

Source: Elcomercio