Sobhraj famously earned the name “bikini killer” after killing an American tourist whose body was found in a tidal pool, wearing a bikini, in Pattaya in Thailand. Several of his intended victims were able to fight the drug's effects long enough to get help. He had tried to poison a group of French tourists in India in 1976. Wherever he went, he preyed on unsuspecting tourists.įluent in several languages, he was a skilled con artist who often targeted young backpackers exploring what was known as the "hippie trail", which ran through Afghanistan and Nepal into South-East Asia. He escaped custody in at least four countries. During the 1970s, he mainly befriended western tourists in Asia, drugging and killing them.įor years, Sobhraj travelled around Europe and Asia. He eventually linked up with Marie-Andree Leclerc who became his romantic partner and accomplice. Ms Compagnon left him and moved back to France. He fled to Kabul and then to Iran, leaving his family behind. He was recaptured but escaped the country while on bail. In 1973, Sobhraj was arrested after an unsuccessful robbery attempt on a jewellery shop in the capital Delhi but was able to escape with Ms Compagnon’s help by faking illness. He then began a romantic relationship with a French woman, Chantal Compagnon, with whom he travelled across Eastern Europe, robbing tourists, before arriving in Bombay, now Mumbai in India. After his release, he married and had a daughter and spent time moving between the high society of Paris and the criminal underworld.įrench serial killer Charles Sobhraj with Nepalese police after a court hearing in 2014. In 1963, Sobhraj was arrested for stealing a car in France. His mother later had another child and married a soldier in the widely despised French army, which re-occupied Vietnam after the Second World War. He spent part of his childhood on the rough streets of Saigon and was shuttled back and forth between his parents. His parents never married and his father denied paternity. Sobhraj was born on Apin Saigon in Vietnam - now Ho Chi Minh City - to an Indian father and a Vietnamese mother. He was also wanted in Thailand where he was charged with drugging and killing six women whose bodies were found near a resort in Pattaya. Nepalese legislation allows the release of convicts above 65 years of age who have completed 75 per cent of their jail term and have shown good conduct during imprisonment.īut this is not the first time he will walk out of prison.Ī notorious robber in the 1970s, Sobhraj served a prison term in India for killing foreign tourists before escaping jail by drugging prison guards.
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