The Latest Breaking News from Charles Sobhraj

He spent 19 years in jail in Nepal for two murders in 1975 and was freed given his age and for good behaviour.

Confessed French serial killer Charles Sobhraj has been released from prison in Nepal after serving most of his sentence

For decades Asia's most wanted man, French serial killer Charles Sobhraj terrorised the continent with a string of murders in the 1970s that targeted tourists.

KATHMANDU: French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, responsible for multiple murders in the 1970s in Thailand and across Asia, was heading to France on Friday after being freed following almost 20 years in a Nepali prison.

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Charles Sobhraj, a convicted killer who police say is responsible for a string of murders in the 1970s and 1980s, was released from a Nepal prison on Friday after nearly two decades behind bars.

KATHMANDU: French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, whose string of murders across Asia in the 1970s was portrayed in the Netflix series “The Serpent”, was still awaiting his release from prison Thursday after a Nepali court ordered him freed on health grounds.

A Frenchman whose life of seduction, murder and escape on the "hippie trail" during the 1970s became the subject for a hit TV series was due to be freed on Thursday after 19 years in prison in Nepal.

Charles Sobhraj’s victims were mostly young Western backpackers on the hippie trail in India and Thailand

Supreme Court has issued an order to free serial killer Charles Shobhraj, also known as "bikini killer" from jail on the basis of a legal provision which states that prisoners who have completed 75 per cent of their jail term and showed good character during imprisonment can be released. Read…

Charles Sobhraj, a convicted killer who police suspect was responsible for a string of murders in the 1970s and 1980s, will be freed from prison in Nepal on Friday after nearly 20 years behind bars, a jail official told Reuters on Thursday.