‘The Serpent’ serial killer Charles Sobhraj returns to France after 19 years in prison

[Still Waters]

Charles Sobhraj, a convicted killer known as “the Serpent” who police believe targeted western backpackers on the hippie trail in the 1970s, has returned to France after nearly two decades behind bars in Nepal, BFM TV reported.

Nepal’s supreme court ordered the release of Sobhraj on Wednesday, citing his advanced age and health.

A French national who was born to an Indian father and Vietnamese mother, Sobhraj, 78, landed at Paris’s main international airport on a commercial flight shortly after 7am.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/24/serpent-serial-killer-charles-sobhraj-returns-to-france-after-19-years-in-prison

[+susieice]

I realize that his age has advanced but I still wish good luck with this. He was already 59 when he committed those murders. Hopefully he will not re-offend.