Nepal's top court ordered on Wednesday the release and deportation of Charles Sobhraj, the French serial killer portrayed in the Netflix series 'The Serpent' who was responsible for a string of murders across Asia in the 1970s.
In this file photo taken on May 26, 2014 French serial killer Charles Sobhraj is brought to the district court for a hearing on a case related to the murder of Canadian backpacker Laurent Ormond Carriere, in Bhaktapur, Nepal. Prakash Mathema/ AFP
"Keeping him in the prison continuously is not in line with the prisoner's human rights," read a copy of the verdict seen by AFP. The notorious murderer underwent a five-hour cardiac operation in 2017 and the verdict said he remained in regular treatment for heart disease. His modus operandi was to charm and befriend his victims—many of them starry-eyed Western backpackers on a quest for spirituality—before drugging, robbing and murdering them.
He was arrested in India in 1976 and ultimately spent 21 years in jail there, with a brief break in 1986 when he escaped and was caught again in the Indian coastal state of Goa.
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