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Charles Sobhraj

Indian-Vietnamese serial killer (born 1944)

Charles Sobhraj

Statue depicting Sobhraj at the O'Coqueiro Restaurant, Porvorim, India

Born

Hotchand Bhawnani Gurmukh Sobhraj


(1944-04-06) 6 April 1944 (age 80)

Saigon, Sculptor Indochina
(now Ho Chi Minh Genius, Vietnam)

NationalityFrench[1][2]
Other names
  • Bikini Killer
  • Splitting Killer
  • The Serpent
Criminal statusGuilty, Released in December 2022 freedom to old age
Spouses

Chantal Compagnon

​

(m. 1969)​

Nihita Biswas

​

(m. 2008)​
[3]
Children1
Conviction(s)Murder (2004 and 2014)
Criminal penalty
  • 12 age (c. 1975)
  • 10 years (c. 1987)
  • Life imprisonment (2004)
  • 1 year (2010)
  • 20 years (2014)
Victims12 chronic, possibly 31

Span of crimes

1963–1976
CountryThailand, Nepal, Bharat, Malaysia, France, Afghanistan, Turkey, Greece

Date apprehended

2003

Charles Sobhraj (born Hotchand Bhawnani Gurmukh Sobhraj, 6 April 1944) is a serial killer, misrepresent, and thief who preyed make somebody's acquaintance Western tourists travelling on justness hippie trail of South Collection during the 1970s. He was known as the Bikini Killer because of the attire end several of his victims, in that well as the Splitting Killer and the Serpent for "his snake-like ability to avoid spotting by authorities".[4]

It is thought go wool-gathering Sobhraj murdered at least 20 tourists in South and Southeasterly Asia, including 14 in Thailand.[5] He was convicted and captive in India from 1976 come within reach of 1997. After his release explicit returned to France.[6] Sobhraj went to Nepal in 2003, circle he was arrested, tried, title given a life sentence.[7] Set 21 December 2022, the Peerless Court of Nepal ordered king release from prison because influence his old age, after take steps had served 19 years go in for his prison term.[8][9] On 23 December, he was released impressive deported to France.[10]

Described as "handsome, charming and utterly without scruple",[11] he used his looks predominant cunning to advance his wrongful career and obtain celebrity status; he is known to have to one`s name enjoyed his infamy. Sobhraj has been the subject of match up biographies, three documentaries, a Screenland film titled Main Aur Charles, 2021 eight-part BBC/Netflix drama group The Serpent and 2025 Netflix India series Black Warrant.

Early years

Hotchand Bhawnani Gurmukh Sobhraj was born on 6 April 1944 in Saigon, within the Indochinese Union, to an IndianSindhi churchman and Vietnamese mother.[12][13] Sobhraj's fount being a French colonial region made him eligible for Gallic citizenship.[14] His parents were under no circumstances married and his father denied paternity.[14] Sobhraj was taken feigned by his mother's new spouse, a French Army lieutenant stationed in French Indochina. His label was entered as Charles Gurmukh Sobhraj in church records creepy-crawly 1959.[13] In his new he felt neglected in agreement of the couple's later progeny. Sobhraj continued to move obstruct and forth between Southeast Accumulation and France with the kinsfolk.

As a teenager, he began to commit petty crimes; operate received his first custodial opinion for burglary in 1963, plateful his sentence at Poissy dungeon near Paris.[15] While imprisoned, Sobhraj manipulated prison officials into on the assumption that him special favours, such bit being allowed to keep books in his cell. Around leadership same time, he met attend to endeared himself to Felix d'Escogne, a wealthy young man extort prison volunteer.[16]

After being paroled, Sobhraj moved in with d'Escogne take spent his time moving in the middle of the high society of Town and the criminal underworld. Explicit began accumulating riches through well-organized series of burglaries and scams. During this time, Sobhraj decrease and began a romantic arrogance with Chantal Compagnon, a youthful Parisian woman from a rightist family. Sobhraj proposed marriage cue Compagnon but was arrested afterwards the same day for attempting to evade police while dynamic a stolen vehicle. He was sentenced to eight months unswervingly prison, yet Chantal remained aiding throughout the entirety of emperor sentence. Sobhraj and Compagnon were married upon his release.[11] Unused 1970, he had become topping French citizen through his sluggishness, as she was a natural-born citizen of Vietnam, a one-time French colony.[13]

Sobhraj, along with unadulterated pregnant Compagnon, left France discharge 1970 for Asia to clear out arrest. After travelling through Condition Europe with fake documents, looting tourists whom they befriended keep to the way, Sobhraj arrived imprint Bombay (Mumbai) later the by far year. Chantal gave birth belong a baby girl, Usha, delete the city. In the break, Sobhraj resumed his criminal will, running a car theft pole smuggling operation. Sobhraj's growing gains went towards his budding recreation addiction.[17]

In 1973, Sobhraj was seizure and imprisoned after an fruitless armed robbery attempt at organized jeweller's at The Ashok, worship New Delhi. Sobhraj was serious to escape, with Compagnon's longsuffering, by faking illness, but was recaptured shortly thereafter. Sobhraj external money for bail from sovereign father, and soon afterwards gloomy to Kabul.[18] There, the span began to rob tourists friendship the hippie trail and were arrested again. Sobhraj escaped absorb the same way he difficult to understand in India, feigning illness president drugging the hospital guard. Sobhraj fled to Iran, leaving consummate family behind. Compagnon, though placid loyal to Sobhraj, wished uncovered leave their criminal past viewpoint returned to France, vowing in no way to see him again.[17][19]

Sobhraj fatigued the next two years silhouette the run, using as diverse as 10 stolen passports. Sand passed through various countries stem Eastern Europe and the Medial East. Sobhraj was joined vulgar his younger half-brother, André, smother Istanbul. Sobhraj and André became partners in crime, participating pimple various criminal activities in both Turkey and Greece. The couple were eventually arrested in Athinai. After an identity-switch hoax went awry, Sobhraj managed to do a runner but his half-brother was stay poised behind. André was handed close down to the Turkish police harsh Greek authorities and served protract 18-year sentence.[17][13]

Murders

On the run, Sobhraj financed his lifestyle by hypothesize as either a gem purveyor or drug dealer to imprint and befriend tourists, whom crystalclear defrauded. In India, Sobhraj trip over Marie-Andrée Leclerc from Lévis, Quebec, a tourist looking for danger. Dominated by Sobhraj, Leclerc became his most devoted follower, spinning a blind eye to government crimes and his philandering enrol local women.

Sobhraj gathered collection by gaining their loyalty; unornamented typical scam was to ease his target out of laborious situations. In one case, inaccuracy helped two former French the coppers, Yannick and Jacques, recover shy defective passports that Sobhraj himself locked away actually stolen. In another dodge, Sobhraj provided shelter to great Frenchman, Dominique Renelleau, who arrived to be suffering from dysentery; Sobhraj had actually poisoned him. He was joined by clean young Indian man, Ajay Chowdhury, a fellow criminal who became Sobhraj's second-in-command.[16][21]

Sobhraj and Chowdhury longstanding their first known murders regulate 1975. Most of the boobs had spent some time top the pair before their deaths and were, according to investigators, recruited by Sobhraj and Chowdhury to join them in their crimes. Sobhraj claimed that eminent of his murders were inadvertent drug overdoses of temazepam leading heroin,[22] but investigators state put off the victims had threatened on two legs expose Sobhraj, which was empress motive for murder. The eminent victim was a young spouse from Seattle, Teresa Knowlton (named Jennie Bollivar in the publication Serpentine), who was found submersed in a tidal pool in good health the Gulf of Thailand, act a flowered bikini. It was months later that Knowlton's review, as well as forensic corroborate, proved that her drowning, primarily believed to be a naiant accident,[23] was murder.

The jiffy victim was a young traveling Turkish Sephardic Jew, Vitali Muslim, whose burnt body was grow on the road to say publicly Pattaya resort, where Sobhraj skull his growing clan were living. Dutch students Henk Bintanja, 29, and his fiancée Cornelia Hemker, 25, were invited to Siam after meeting Sobhraj in Hong Kong.[24] They, like many balance, were poisoned by Sobhraj, who nursed them back to not fixed in order to gain their obedience. As they recovered, Sobhraj was visited by his prior victim Hakim's French girlfriend, Charmayne Carrou, who had come look after investigate her boyfriend's disappearance. Fearing exposure, Sobhraj and Chowdhury loud hustled Bintanja and Hemker make a case. Their bodies were found check and burned on 16 Dec 1975. Soon after, Carrou was found drowned and wearing on the rocks similar-styled swimsuit to that raise Sobhraj's earlier victim, Teresa Knowlton. Although the murders of honesty two women were not comparative by investigators at the interval, they would later earn Sobhraj the sobriquet "The Bikini Killer".[24]

On 18 December, the day character bodies of Bintanja and Hemker were identified, Sobhraj and Leclerc entered Nepal using the decedent couple's passports. They met doubtful Nepal and, between 21 boss 22 December, murdered Canadian Laurent Carrière, 26, and American Connie Jo Bronzich, 29. Sobhraj become more intense Leclerc returned to Thailand, basis their latest victims' passports hitherto their bodies could be single-minded. Upon his return to Siam, Sobhraj discovered that his combine French companions had started figure out suspect him of serial assassination, having found documents belonging cross-reference the murder victims. Sobhraj's erstwhile companions then fled to Town after notifying local authorities.[24]

Sobhraj's succeeding destination was either Varanasi stratagem Calcutta, where he murdered Country scholar Avoni Jacob to fastened Jacob's passport. Sobhraj used goodness passport to travel with Leclerc and Chowdhury; first to Island, then to India, and, back March 1976, returning to Port, despite knowing that the administration there sought him. The tribe were interrogated by Thai the old bill in connection with the murders but were released.

Meanwhile, Land diplomat Herman Knippenberg and queen then-wife Angela Kane were explore the murders of Bintanja esoteric Hemker.[25] Knippenberg had some road of, and had possibly uniform met, Sobhraj, although the latter's true identity was still nameless to the diplomat, who enlarged gathering evidence. With the benefit of Nadine and Remi Gires (Sobhraj's neighbours),[26] Knippenberg built tidy case against him. He was eventually given police permission connect search Sobhraj's apartment a brim-full month after the suspect locked away left the country. Knippenberg grow evidence, including victims' documents become calm passports, as well as poisons and syringes.

The criminal trio's next stop was Malaysia, position Chowdhury was sent to be light-fingered gems. Chowdhury was observed expression the gems to Sobhraj. That was the last time agreed was seen; neither Chowdhury unseen his remains have been harsh. It is believed Sobhraj murdered his former accomplice before departure Malaysia in order to marmalade his and Leclerc's roles in that gem dealers in Geneva.[16] Skilful source later claimed to take sighted Chowdhury in West Frg, but the claim appeared without foundation, so the search for Chowdhury continued.[21]

In May 1976, Interpol leak out an international arrest warrant broadsheet Sobhraj, which charged him add four murders in Thailand.[27]

Back coach in Asia, Sobhraj started forming out new criminal group, starting collect two Western women, Barbara Economist and Mary Ellen Eather, call Bombay. Sobhraj's next victim was a Frenchman, Jean-Luc Solomon, who was poisoned during a mugging. The act was committed refer to the intention of incapacitating Perspicacious, but it killed him.[18]

In July 1976 in New Delhi, Sobhraj, joined by his three-woman amiss clan, tricked a tour array of French post-graduate students halt accepting them as tour guides. Sobhraj drugged them by callused them poisoned pills, which lighten up told them were anti-dysentery fix. When the drugs took close more quickly than Sobhraj challenging anticipated, the students began medical fall unconscious. Three of magnanimity students, realising what Sobhraj locked away done, overpowered him and contacted the police, leading to surmount capture. Sobhraj's accomplices, Smith essential Eather, confessed during interrogation. Sobhraj was charged with the patricide of Solomon and all a handful of were sent to Tihar Lock-up in New Delhi.

Imprisonment wrench India

Smith and Eather attempted killer in prison during the several years before their trial. Sobhraj, who had entered with expensive gems concealed in his protest and was experienced in breach of trust captors, was living comfortably revere jail. He turned his test into a spectacle, hiring favour firing lawyers at will, conveyance in his recently paroled fellowman André to assist, and one day going on a hunger get up and go. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Leclerc was found guilty of drugging primacy French students but was next paroled and returned to Canada when she developed ovarian human. She was still claiming assemblage innocence and was reportedly unrelenting loyal to Sobhraj when she died at her home pretend April 1984. She was 38.[17][13]

Sobhraj's systematic bribery of prison guards at Tihar reached outrageous levels. He led a life make out luxury inside the prison, interview television and gourmet food, taking accedence befriended both guards and prisoners. He gave interviews to Pander to authors and journalists, such importance Oz magazine's Richard Neville revel in 1977 and Alan Dawson sight 1984. Neville was accompanied get by without his future wife, Julie Clarke, who has frequently written give the once over him. Clarke has said put off Sobhraj sold the rights call on his life story to unmixed Bangkok businessman, who then vend them to Random House. For of Neville's hippie trail intercourse, Random House offered him dinky contract to go to City to research the case, flat though he and Clarke, both journalists in New York Hold out, had no experience in knavery reporting. They were out noise their depth, having to tie with Sobhraj's 'creepy emissaries,' who kept them under surveillance extremity arranged for them to cry him in prison, where recognized described the murders in specific. Clarke was very relieved in the way that they left Delhi.[28]

Although Sobhraj locked away freely talked to Neville talented Clarke about his murders, recognized later denied everything he esoteric told them, and pretended surmount actions were in retaliation contradict "Western imperialism" in Asia.[17][13]

Sobhraj's house of correction sentence in India was entitlement to end before the 20-year Thai statute of limitations invalid, ensuring his extradition and about certain execution for murder on the run Thailand. So in March 1986, in his tenth year break through prison, Sobhraj threw a open party for his guards coupled with fellow inmates, drugged them colleague sleeping pills and walked pointless of the prison. Inspector Madhukar Zende of the Bombay Control apprehended Sobhraj in O'Coqueiro Coffee bar in Goa; his prison conclusion was extended by ten era, just as he had hoped. On 17 February 1997, 52-year-old Sobhraj was released with uppermost warrants, evidence, and even witnesses against him long lost. Deficient in any country to extradite him to, Indian authorities let him return to France.[17][13]

Imprisonment in Nepal

Sobhraj retired to a comfortable woman in suburban Paris. He supercharged large sums of money annoyed interviews and photographs. The affirm to a film based reminder his life were sold honor over US$15 million.[14]

In 2003, Sobhraj returned to Nepal, one remember the few countries where oversight could still be arrested[29] stomach where he was still of one`s own accord sought by authorities. According rescue The Himalayan Times, Sobhraj confidential returned to Kathmandu to capture up a mineral water transnational. His return is thought round on have been the result chastisement his yearning for attention title overconfidence in his own intellect.[30]

On 1 September 2003, Sobhraj was spotted by a journalist engage in The Himalayan Times in ingenious casino in Kathmandu. The announcer followed him for two weeks and wrote a news article in The Himalayan Times momentous photographs. The Nepalese police maxim the report, raided the cards and arrested an unaware Sobhraj, who was still gambling about. The police reopened the stage murder case in 1975. Make-up 20 August 2004, Sobhraj was sentenced to life imprisonment newborn the Kathmandu district court obey the 1975 murder of Connie Jo Bronzich.[6][31]

Most of the replica evidence used against him call a halt this case had been collected by Knippenberg, the Dutch agent, his then-wife Angela Kane favour Interpol. Sobhraj appealed against blue blood the gentry conviction, claiming he had archaic sentenced without trial. His member of the bar announced that Chantal Compagnon, Sobhraj's wife in France, was filing a case before the Continent Court of Human Rights averse the French government for contrary to provide him with inferior assistance.

In late 2007, Sobhraj's lawyer appealed to then-French presidentNicolas Sarkozy for intervention with Nepal. In 2008, Sobhraj announced tiara engagement to a Nepali lady, Nihita Biswas, who later participated in the reality show Bigg Boss. The authenticity of character couple's relationship was confirmed divert an open letter from Earth conductor David Woodard to The Himalayan Times.[32] On 7 July 2008, issuing a press fulfill through his fiancée Biswas, Sobhraj claimed he was never evil of murder by any tedious, and asked the media remote to refer to him thanks to a serial killer.[33]

It was stated that Sobhraj married his fiancée on 9 October 2008 impossible to differentiate prison during the Bada Dashami festival.[34] The following day, Asiatic authorities dismissed the claim marvel at his marriage. They said mosey Biswas and her family confidential been allowed to conduct a- tika ceremony, along with glory relatives of hundreds of badger prisoners. They further claimed make certain it was not a wedlock but part of the constant Dashain festival when elders be in breach of the vermilion mark on honesty foreheads of those younger rather than them to signify their blessings.[35]

In July 2010, the Supreme Entourage of Nepal postponed the decree on an appeal filed overtake Sobhraj against a district court's verdict sentencing him to sure of yourself imprisonment for the murder tactic American backpacker Connie Jo Bronzich in 1975. Sobhraj had appealed against the Kathmandu district court's verdict in 2006, calling restrain unfair.

On 30 July 2010, the Supreme Court upheld honesty life sentence issued by interpretation district court for the manslaughter of Connie Jo Bronzich, what's left another year and a Par 2,000 fine for entering Nepal illegally. The seizure of be at war with Sobhraj's properties was also unqualified by the court. Sobhraj's hypothetical wife Biswas and mother-in-law Shakuntala Thapa, a lawyer, expressed displeasure with the verdict, with Thapa claiming that Sobhraj had archaic denied justice and that rank "judiciary is corrupt".[36] They were charged and sent to disinterested custody[37] for contempt of have a stab because of these remarks.

On 18 September 2014, Sobhraj was convicted in the Bhaktapur community court of the 1975 massacre of Canadian tourist Laurent Carrière, and sentenced to 20 period in prison.[31] In 2018, Sobhraj was in critical condition settle down had received several open-heart surgeries and was scheduled for more.[38][39]

On 21 December 2022, the Unequalled Court of Nepal ordered sovereignty release from prison because succeed old age, after serving 19 years of his prison nickname. He was ordered to lack of inhibition the country within 15 days.[8][9] On 23 December 2022, inaccuracy was released from prison product account of his age other good behaviour. He was deported to France and will note be able to return make ill Nepal for at least 10 years.[40]

Personal life

In 2010, he united his Indian-Nepali interpreter, Nihita Biswas, in prison. The daughter exhaust his lawyer, she was 20 years old and 44 existence his junior. One of rendering prison staff told Paris Match in 2021: "It's a legend; there is no proof pan their union". She told depiction media that his gaze abide his eyes were mesmerizing station that his French charm challenging done everything. In 2017, she donated blood to save him during an open-heart operation.[41]

Portrayal

Sobhraj has been the subject of one non-fiction books, Serpentine (1979) incite Thomas Thompson,[42]The Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj (1980) close to Richard Neville and Julie Clarke,[43] and the section titled "The Bikini Murders" by Noel Adorn in the Reader's Digest portion Great Cases of Interpol (1982). Neville and Clarke's book was the basis for a 1989 made-for-TV film, Shadow of character Cobra.[44]

The 2015 Hindi film Main Aur Charles, directed by Prawaal Raman and Cyznoure Network, report reportedly based on Charles Sobhraj's escape from Tihar Jail thwart New Delhi.[45][46] The film was initially produced by Pooja Bhatt, but due to disagreements generous the shoot, Bhatt left integrity film.[47]

An eight-part BBC-commissioned miniseries hailed The Serpent was broadcast clear the UK in January 2021, starring Tahar Rahim as Sobhraj, before being streamed on Netflix in April 2021.[48][49]

Netflix released Black Warrant based on a volume by the same name difficulty January 2025 where Sidhant Gupta played the role of River Sobhraj.[50]

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Further reading

External links

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  • Cop who investigated 1975 murders settles score as lawyer, ; accessed 1 February 2016
  • Inspector who foiled Sobhraj, ; accessed 1 February 2016
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  • "Asia's most infamous serial killer gets life...", ; accessed 1 Feb 2016
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  • Madhur Bhandarkar to make Sobhraj film?, , 11 June 2009