His victims were drugged, strangled, beaten or burned. Sobhraj has been linked to more than 30 killings, 12 of which are confirmed, between 19. She spoke to the Post, waiting outside the Department of Immigration. I feel relieved, and very light today,” said Sobhraj’s wife, Nihita Biswas, 32, a Nepali national who is 46 years his junior. “It’s been a long legal battle, a long journey for justice. Sobhraj had been convicted in two separate trials - most recently in 2014, when he was sentenced to a high security prison for murdering Carriere.īut Nepal's Supreme Court ordered Sobhraj's release this week considering his advanced age and good behaviour after Sobhraj’s legal team successfully argued before the court that he should be given a concession on his prison term due to his failing health. The notorious killer had been concurrently serving two sentences, each 20 years, in Kathmandu for the 1975 murder of an American woman, Connie Jo Bronzich, and her Canadian backpacker friend, Laurent Carriere. As per the court’s directive, Sobhraj had to be deported to France within 15 days of its Wednesday verdict.įrom the central jail, Sobhraj was driven straight to the Department of Immigration in the Capital under a heavy security cover, flanked by machine gun-toting armed security guards. Sobhraj was immediately detained following his afternoon release from jail. “The Home Ministry has banned Sobhraj from entering Nepal for 10 years,” said Pokharel, adding that the cost incurred in buying Sobhraj’s flight ticket was not borne by the Nepal government. He said Sobhraj was sent straight to the airport from the immigration department after the French embassy prepared his travel documents. “Sobhraj departed Kathmandu on Friday at 6:30 in the evening by a Qatar Airways flight,” Fanindra Mani Pokharel, joint secretary and spokesperson for the Home Ministry, told the Post. Having spent 43 years of his life in jail, Sobhraj is perhaps the world’s only convict who has served life sentences in two different countries during one lifetime. Suave and articulate, Sobhraj used to befriend unsuspecting Western backpackers and upon earning their trust, drugged and murdered them, fleeing with their cash, valuables and passports. Sobhraj is responsible for multiple murders of young foreigners across Asia in the 1970s. After 19 years, three months and seven days in Kathmandu Central Jail, at 12:20 pm on Friday, French serial killer, fraudster and thief, Charles Gurumukh Sobhraj, 78, was freed and later deported to France on the orders of the Supreme Court of Nepal.
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