Frenchman Charles Sombraz had been detained in Nepal’s prisons since 2003 – He is being released for health reasons, the authorities of the Asian country announced – The well-known film “The Reptile” was based on him
Nepal’s Supreme Court today ordered the release of Frenchman Charles Sombraz, the serial “bikini killer” known by the nickname “The Reptile” and responsible for a series of killings in Asian countries in the 1970s.
The 78-year-old today Sobraz, who is kept in his prisons Nepal since 2003, convicted of the murder of two American tourists, will be released for health reasons, according to a document obtained by AFP. “If there are no other charges against him to remain in prison, the court orders that he be released today and (…) return to his country within 15 days.”
Sombraz, from an Indian father and a Vietnamese mother, had a difficult childhood in France and ended up in prison several times for minor offences. In the 1970s he began traveling the world and found himself in the capital of Thailand, Bangkok. He used to approach his victims, befriend them and then drug, rob and kill them. In most cases, they were female tourists from Western countries.
His first victim is believed to be a young American woman who was found dead on 1975wearing only her bikini, on a beach in Pattaya.
Sombraz’s name is linked to around 20 murders. He often used the passports of the men he killed to travel to his next destination.
Nicknamed “The Reptile” – from his ability to change identities to evade the authorities – he also gave the title to a hit BBC and Netflix series based on his life.
THE Sombraz was arrested in India in 1976 and was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the murder of a French tourist in a hotel in Delhi. But he spent a total of 21 years in prison, with a brief break in 1986, when he escaped and was arrested again in Goa.
After being released in 1997 he returned to Paris. But he reappeared in 2003 in Nepal, was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of American tourist Connie Jo Bronzic. Ten years later he was also found guilty of murdering Bronzic’s Canadian partner.
In 2008, while in prison, Sobraz married 20-year-old Nihita Biswas, 44 years his junior and the daughter of his Nepali lawyer.
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