Charles Sobhraj is believed to have killed at least 20 people in Afghanistan, India, Thailand, Turkey, Nepal, Iran and Hong Kong during the 1970s, usually by drugging their food or drink.
Confessed French serial killer Charles Sobhraj known as the "serpent killer" has been ordered to be released from prison in Nepal having served most of his sentence, due to poor health and good behaviour.
Known as the "bikini killer", Thailand issued a warrant for his arrest in the mid-1970s on charges of drugging and killing six women, all wearing bikinis, on a beach at Pattaya. He was also called "the serpent" because of his ability to disguise himself following his escape from a prison in India in the mid-1980s, where he was serving 21 years on murder charges.Sobhraj was held for two decades in New Delhi's maximum-security Tihar prison on suspicion of theft but was deported without charge to France in 1997.
In 2003 he was arrested from a casino in Nepal's capital Kathmandu, later charged there for murdering American backpacker Connie Jo Bronzich.
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