Notorious serial killer boards Christmas flight home and passengers ‘freak out’
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A serial killer dubbed "The Serpent" has been spotted flying home for Christmas having just been released from a life sentence in prison – and passengers travelling alongside him were not happy.
Convicted killer Charles Sobhraj, suspected in the deaths of at least 20 tourists around Asia in the 1970s, arrived in Paris as a free man today (December 24) after being released from a life sentence in a Nepal prison.
Sobhraj, who is believed to have killed at least 20 people in Afghanistan, India, Thailand, Turkey, Nepal, Iran and Hong Kong between 1972 and 1982, joined the Qatar Airlines flight on Christmas Eve.
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His story was the subject of a BBC and Netflix documentary called “The Serpent", which aired last year, and he has in the past admitted to killing Western tourists around Asia.
His “serpent” nickname came about because he developed a reputation for evading arrest, having fled several times over the years.
But having now served 20 years behind bars, the 78-year-old Frenchman is free – and he decided to fly home for Christmas.
And in photos of him on the plane, it appears that passengers are terrified of being anywhere near the murderer.
This was picked up on by several people on social media.
One wrote: “Note the terror on the passengers faces sitting beside him.”
And another posted on Twitter: “Call me picky, but airlines probably should ask passengers if they choose to sit next to serial killers.”
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A third commented: “The ladies are not too happy.”
Speaking to the Associated Press after finishing his journey to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, he said: “I’m fine, I’m glad. We are going to have lunch.”
The killed was first arrested in New Delhi in 1976 and accused of murdering two tourists and stealing their jewellery – he was convicted of the theft but acquitted of murder.
He somehow escaped from a maximum-security prison by drugging prison guards with a drug-filled birthday cake.
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Later, he was found in Thailand, where he faced 14 murder charges, however he fled to India until the Thai case expired in 1996 – as the two countries do not have an extradition treaty.
In 1997 he was sent from India to France, but escaped after being found to have poisoned French tourists in India, before finally resurfacing in Nepal in 2003.
He was questioned about the unsolved murders of an American and a Canadian backpacker whose charred bodies were found on the outskirts of Kathmandu.
He was found guilty and given a life sentence a year later.
Sobhraj is now a free man in his French homeland once again.
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