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 after nearly two decades behind bars
A Reuters witness saw Sobhraj, wearing a woollen cap and a blue fleece jacket, being escorted to Nepal's immigration department by a group of at least seven policemen, some of them in flak jackets. He is expected to return to France, his lawyer Gopal Shivakoti Chintan told Reuters earlier on Friday.his release from prison, citing his age. He was expected to be out of jail on Thursday, but pre-release procedures, including a health check-up, have caused delays, Pandey told Reuters.
"I'm happy and have great respect for our judiciary and Supreme court," Sobhraj's mother-in-law Sakuntala Thapa told Reuters partner ANI after news of his release was announced.He denied killing the American woman and his lawyers said the charge against him was based on assumption. But he was suspected of many more murders, including in Thailand, where police say he allegedly drugged and killed six women in the 1970s, some of whom turned up dead on a beach near the resort of Pattaya.
Sobhraj escaped from India's Tihar jail in 1986 after drugging prison guards with cookies and cakes laced with sleeping pills."I walked upto their table and said 'you are Charles'", Madhukar Zende, the policeman who caught him in Goa, told The Indian Express newspaper in an interview published on Friday.
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