webfact Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 By Sarah Fowler BBC News A French serial killer portrayed in BBC drama The Serpent is to be freed from a Nepalese prison, after a court ruling. Charles 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. Full story: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64050714 -- © Copyright BBC 2022-12-22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jacko45k Posted December 21, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 21, 2022 (edited) Yes, I watched the TV documentary drama. Edited December 22, 2022 by jacko45k 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post VinnieK Posted December 22, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 22, 2022 Only 19 years for two murders? Considering his past misdeeds, he should go down with multiple life sentences I wonder how much he'd get if the victims were Nepalis. 1 million years? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HuskerDo2 Posted December 22, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 22, 2022 Why are people like this ever let back into society? It happens all the time all over the world and most of the time they end up killing again. Such nonsense. 14 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post spidermike007 Posted December 22, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 22, 2022 The only fair and reasonable sentence for guys like this would be execution. No big deal. Just taken out with a bullet to the head. Everyone benefits. Does anyone think this insect will behave himself now? 7 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Pmbkk Posted December 22, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 22, 2022 Was a good BBC series to watch... 4 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post The Fugitive Posted December 22, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 22, 2022 2 minutes ago, Pmbkk said: Was a good BBC series to watch... It was, one of the very best productions I have ever seen. Superb acting too. 4 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BananaStrong Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 Make sure you fact check, the documentary did miss some things and a different ending in real life with all those tourists. With that said, give him 10000000 years in prison. I’m not defending this evil person. Shame he can’t be prosecuted in Thailand, they should change the laws just because of him. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamus Yaigh Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 Is this thread about the TV show or the release of a serial killer? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianthainess Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 It would be interesting to see how he looks now, still lets hope his heart condition gets worse. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mywayboy Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 1 hour ago, VinnieK said: Only 19 years for two murders? Considering his past misdeeds, he should go down with multiple life sentences I wonder how much he'd get if the victims were Nepalis. 1 million years? Execute him DOG. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnyF Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 50 minutes ago, The Fugitive said: It was, one of the very best productions I have ever seen. Superb acting too. And Jenna Coleman. Oooooooweeeeeee. ???? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post pomchop Posted December 22, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 22, 2022 I have read most of the books about sobraj... I used to hang out at the pudding shop in istanbul same time he was there looking for victims...guess i was lucky as was with two hot canadian gals and we were all young and starry eyed smoking hash and heading to Goa. We would/could have been good targets for the snake. Bit creepy to know we were likely in pudding shop with him one or more times. I think the best of the books is/was Serpentine by Thomas Thompson https://www.amazon.com/Serpentine-Thomas-Thompson/dp/0786707496 3 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Real Name Hidden Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 He was able to make a living by selling his story to journalists, so I won’t watch the series or read any books about the guy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post pomchop Posted December 22, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 22, 2022 9 minutes ago, Real Name Hidden said: He was able to make a living by selling his story to journalists, so I won’t watch the series or read any books about the guy. Not sure how many journalists actually paid him to write stories but i doubt that all of then did. He was a very unique/dangerous/weird person with a strange bizarre life and that made for an interesting read. Sort of a charles manson type that was able to control people to do his bidding. In my opinion he should never be released no matter what his age or health situation...he sure never showed any mercy for his victims. 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jacko45k Posted December 22, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 22, 2022 3 minutes ago, pomchop said: In my opinion he should never be released no matter what his age or health situation...he sure never showed any mercy for his victims. Well it is the Nepalese authorities who are releasing him under their rules, 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, It might be expensive for the Nepalese to provide him with health care and their beliefs may not align with a Western 'let him rot' attitude! 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pomchop Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 4 minutes ago, jacko45k said: Well it is the Nepalese authorities who are releasing him under their rules, 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, It might be expensive for the Nepalese to provide him with health care and their beliefs may not align with a Western 'let him rot' attitude! "good character".... a guy that killed people across the world with no remorse, escaped prison/jail over and over and was an amazing conman, crook, and murderer.....not my idea of good character but i do understand that nepal gets to decide. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzaa09 Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 Serial killer. Interesting to note what constitutes this classification these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bobandyson Posted December 22, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 22, 2022 1 hour ago, Real Name Hidden said: He was able to make a living by selling his story to journalists, so I won’t watch the series or read any books about the guy. That'll teach him not to kill again. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emdog Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 2 hours ago, pomchop said: I have read most of the books about sobraj... I used to hang out at the pudding shop in istanbul same time he was there looking for victims...guess i was lucky as was with two hot canadian gals and we were all young and starry eyed smoking hash and heading to Goa. We would/could have been good targets for the snake. Bit creepy to know we were likely in pudding shop with him one or more times. I think the best of the books is/was Serpentine by Thomas Thompson https://www.amazon.com/Serpentine-Thomas-Thompson/dp/0786707496 I was loaned this book by Aussie postman whilst on Koh Samuii in '84, at start of 1 year trip around Asia... Thanks Frank, good prep. I could only watch the first episode of the series: it was too real, right down to table cloths at restaurants. A true evil person, "the Manson of Asia" I'd call him. On that 84 trip went by Kannit house (spell wrong i bet) just for a look This link take you to "The Life and Crimes of Charles Sobraj".... many photos of all the original people involved, etc. He should never be let out imo.Link: Life and Crimes of Charles Sobraj 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blumpie Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 Life is cheap in the third world. What I am referring to is his victims. Paris can have their dingbat back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BostonRob2 Posted December 22, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 22, 2022 I just missed this guy's killing era in and around the Malaysia Hotel in Soi Ngam Duplee. And I'm glad I never got anywhere near him. A real danger to people he befriended, drugged and murdered on the hippie trail. If he ever came back to Thailand he'd be held on a double murder charge. He slipped out of RTP fingers before and would not be allowed to do so again. He wouldn't dare come to Thailand. Beware elsewhere though no matter how advanced his age. Rooster 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proton Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 26 minutes ago, BostonRob2 said: I just missed this guy's killing era in and around the Malaysia Hotel in Soi Ngam Duplee. And I'm glad I never got anywhere near him. A real danger to people he befriended, drugged and murdered on the hippie trail. If he ever came back to Thailand he'd be held on a double murder charge. He slipped out of RTP fingers before and would not be allowed to do so again. He wouldn't dare come to Thailand. Beware elsewhere though no matter how advanced his age. Rooster Wasn't he arrested in 1976? several years later is hardly just missed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew65 Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 (edited) Does anyone know where he lived in Bangkok? I first became aware of Sobrajh and his crimes after reading a Time Magazine (I think) article about him in Bangkok on my first visit there in 1985. Edited December 22, 2022 by Andrew65 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sqwakvfr Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 Has he been banned from Thailand. I believe he is a French Citizens so he can go back there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo2014 Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 Ready to kill again. What will his next victims families say to the Nepalese govt? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montnoveau Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 51 minutes ago, Jimbo2014 said: Ready to kill again. What will his next victims families say to the Nepalese govt? He is 78 and has spent the last 19 years in jail. He's lucky if the can get off the bed unassisted... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pomchop Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 1 hour ago, Andrew65 said: Does anyone know where he lived in Bangkok? I first became aware of Sobrajh and his crimes after reading a Time Magazine (I think) article about him in Bangkok on my first visit there in 1985. Charles Sobhraj and Marie LeClerk's move into Kanit House 504 in 1975 and make that their base to screen and entrap their victims..it was near patpong 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bradiston Posted December 22, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 22, 2022 (edited) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sobhraj I was also in the Pudding Shop in Istanbul in 1969, at one end of the hippie trail, on my way to Kathmandu same year. In 1986, I stayed in Soi Ngam Duplee for a month or so, in Bangkok, hanging out around the Malaysia Hotel. There were a lot of Europeans there, many skint, a lot in prison, a lot of smack, a lot of casualties. Easy pickings for a guy like Sobhraj. Fear was your best friend. Edited December 22, 2022 by bradiston 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nsp64 Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 9 hours ago, spidermike007 said: The only fair and reasonable sentence for guys like this would be execution. No big deal. Just taken out with a bullet to the head. Everyone benefits. Does anyone think this insect will behave himself now? He's 84 for goodness sake. Only being released so he can die Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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