Serial Killer Charles Sobhraj To Be Released From Nepal Jail

Kathmandu: The Nepal Supreme Court has ordered the release of French serial killer Charles Sobhraj.

The country’s top court ordered the same after 19 years in jail on the ground of his age. He is now 78.

Charles has been in a Nepal jail since 2003 on charges of murdering two American tourists.

“Keeping him in the prison continuously is not in line with the prisoner’s human rights,” read a copy of the verdict.

“If there are not any other pending cases against him to keep him in the prison, this court orders his release by today and… the return to his country within 15 days.”

Sobhraj, a Frenchman of Indian and Vietnamese parentage, was charged with using a fake passport to enter Nepal and killing two backpackers in 1975, US citizen Connie Jo Boronzich, 29, and his girlfriend Canadian Laurent Carrière, 26.

He was spotted outside a casino in Nepal on September 1, 2003, after a newspaper published his photograph. After his arrest, the police filed two separate murder cases against him on charges of murdering a couple in 1975 in Kathmandu and Bhaktapur.