BBC News
By Sarah Fowler
December 21, 2022
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.