Serial killer The Serpent, Charles Sobhraj, to be freed from Nepal jail
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Serial killer The Serpent, Charles Sobhraj, to be freed from Nepal jail
He should not be free
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A French serial killer portrayed in BBC drama The Serpent is to be freed from a Nepalese prison, after a court ruling.
FUCK:
his human rights?? what about the rights of those he killed??
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A French serial killer portrayed in BBC drama The Serpent is to be freed from a Nepalese prison, after a court ruling.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64050714Charles Sobhraj, who spent 19 years in jail for the murder of two tourists in Kathmandu in 1975, has been ordered to return to France within 15 days.
Sobhraj was linked to a string of other tourist murders in the 1970s, and spent 20 years in prison in India.
His victims were mostly young Western backpackers on the hippie trail in India and Thailand.
The notorious killer had been serving two life sentences, each 20 years, in Nepal's capital for the murder of an American woman, Connie Jo Bronzich, and her Canadian backpacker friend, Laurent Carriere.
He was convicted in two separate trials - most recently in 2014, when he was sentenced to 20 years in a high security prison for murdering Carriere.
But Nepal's Supreme Court ordered Sobhraj's release on Wednesday after his legal team successfully filed a petition claiming he should be given a concession on his prison term due to his age, 78, and good behaviour.
A provision in Nepalese law allows inmates who have shown good character and completed 75% of their jail term to be released.
"Keeping him in the prison continuously is not in line with the prisoner's human rights," the verdict read, according to AFP, and cites regular treatment for heart disease as another factor in his release. His lawyer says he could be released as soon as Thursday.
Sobhraj has been linked to more than 20 killings between 1972 and 1982, in which the victims were drugged, strangled, beaten or burned.
He was dubbed "The Serpent" or the "Bikini Killer" for his knack for deceptive disguises, ability to escape prison and tendency to target young women. It later became the title for a hit BBC and Netflix series about the killer, which was released in 2020.
Prior to his two convictions in Kathmandu, Sobhraj had already spent two decades in jail in India for poisoning a busload of French tourists.
During that time he briefly managed to escape from prison by drugging the prison guards. He later claimed the escape was a ploy to get his sentence extended and avoid extradition to Thailand where he was wanted for five more murders.
Following his release from India, Sobhraj was arrested for Bronzich's murder after being spotted in a casino in Kathmandu in 2003.
FUCK:
his human rights?? what about the rights of those he killed??
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Re: Serial killer The Serpent, Charles Sobhraj, to be freed from Nepal jail
Yeah, that is a mind too wily and deranged to be let back into society, even in his old age.
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Re: Serial killer The Serpent, Charles Sobhraj, to be freed from Nepal jail
Awesome drama. Horrible person.
Re: Serial killer The Serpent, Charles Sobhraj, to be freed from Nepal jail
Great news, maybe he will continue in present day Thailand and we can enjoy a sequel to that great Netflix series in due time. I'd love to hear his take on beg packers, too.
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The TAT should hire him as an adviser.
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Re: Serial killer The Serpent, Charles Sobhraj, to be freed from Nepal jail
Anyone have a particular book on Sobrahaj to recommend ? Preferably an unauthorised version that doesn't give him any money of course.
Read one years ago when I was backpacking in SEA in the 80s - lol - he's a lot older than me, but I was young (and so naive) when I started out.
I would have been prime fodder for someone like that. Thought I knew everything, and I was game for anything.
Also you have to remember how much drugs we used to take on a daily basis back then ( which led to zero critical judgement of the people you hung out with.) There was also this very stupid provincial idea that other westerners/ backpackers were more trustworthy than local people. Major error.
Read one years ago when I was backpacking in SEA in the 80s - lol - he's a lot older than me, but I was young (and so naive) when I started out.
I would have been prime fodder for someone like that. Thought I knew everything, and I was game for anything.
Also you have to remember how much drugs we used to take on a daily basis back then ( which led to zero critical judgement of the people you hung out with.) There was also this very stupid provincial idea that other westerners/ backpackers were more trustworthy than local people. Major error.
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Re: Serial killer The Serpent, Charles Sobhraj, to be freed from Nepal jail
There are two that have been around the backpacking circuit for ever (both were published in 1979). One is "The life and crimes of Charles Sobhraj by Richard Neville (of Oz magazine) and Julie Clarke. It came from interviews done with Sobhraj in Tihar prison. The problem is that it's a bit biased in Sobhraj's favor. The other is Serpentine by Thomas Thompson, which in much more detailed and in my opinion a much better book.
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Yes the Thomas Thompson book is well researched and the best of the two
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Seems like a general trend these days:
Chief bombmaker in Bali bombings released from Indonesian prison after 'good behaviour'
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-08/ ... /101746870
U.S. President Reagan's shooter John Hinckley fully released after 41 years
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-pre ... 022-06-15/
Supreme Court orders release of six convicts currently serving life imprisonment in connection with the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
https://www.indiatoday.in/law/story/raj ... 2022-11-11
Chief bombmaker in Bali bombings released from Indonesian prison after 'good behaviour'
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-08/ ... /101746870
U.S. President Reagan's shooter John Hinckley fully released after 41 years
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-pre ... 022-06-15/
Supreme Court orders release of six convicts currently serving life imprisonment in connection with the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
https://www.indiatoday.in/law/story/raj ... 2022-11-11
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Re: Serial killer The Serpent, Charles Sobhraj, to be freed from Nepal jail
To be fair 41 years for non fatally shooting somebody is a touch excessivesigmoid wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 3:26 pm Seems like a general trend these days:
Chief bombmaker in Bali bombings released from Indonesian prison after 'good behaviour'
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-08/ ... /101746870
U.S. President Reagan's shooter John Hinckley fully released after 41 years
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-pre ... 022-06-15/
Supreme Court orders release of six convicts currently serving life imprisonment in connection with the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
https://www.indiatoday.in/law/story/raj ... 2022-11-11
And the six Indians have all done 39 years - and they were merely involved - the actual killer died in the suicide attack
And 18-21years for bombmaking is about average also
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