

He was released in 1997.It is also believed that he killed at least 14 foreign tourists in Thailand, after which he started living in Paris. However, in 1986, he escaped the high-security prison after drugging prison guards with cookies and cakes mixed with sleeping pills.He was arrested 22 days later from the coastal state of Goa. When he was 19, he was arrested for the first time after being charged with burglary.In the 1970s, he started traveling across the world where he started posing as a gem trader to befriend his potential victims, most of them backpackers and hippies.The convicted killer is also known as "Serpent" for his frequent evasions of the police and disguising by using victims' passports or identity cards.How Sobhraj Got ArrestedIn the 1970s, he traveled extensively to India, Nepal, Singapore, Greece, Afghanistan, Hong Kong, Turkey and Iran, where he also committed crimes ranging from car theft to drugging, robbing and killing tourists whom he befriended.He was arrested in 1976 for the murder of French tourist Jean-Luc Solomon and convicted to 21 years in Delhis' Tihar jail. His mother married a French lieutenant, and they both brought up Sobhraj.As a teenage boy, he became involved in petty crimes.

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Arrested in 2003 for the crime, he was convicted for Carriere's murder in 2014.In 2017, the serial killer underwent open heart surgery.Before his arrest in Kathmandu in 2003, Sobhraj served 21 years in Indian prison for poisoning a busload of French tourists.Sobhraj's BackgroundBorn in 1944 to a Vietnamese mother and Indian father in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City, Sobhraj's full name is Hatchand Bhaonani Gurumukh Charles Sobhraj.He had a traumatic childhood as his parents separated, settling in Asia and France. He is being processed and will be deported to his native France, which could take up to 15 days.Sobhraj is serving his jail term in Nepal for two separate killings - an American woman, Connie Jo Bronzich, and her Canadian backpacker friend, Laurent Carriere, in 1975. The notorious 78-year-old murderer Charles Sobhraj was released from a Nepalese prison on Friday at the behest of the country's Supreme Court.
