Charles Sobhraj is free. The police officer who caught and interrogated him explains how the murderer and conman works the system
Charles Gurumukh Sobhraj has done it again in Nepal jail, proving himself to be a ‘good prisoner’, producing ‘medical papers’ and getting an order from the highest court of the country to be released two years ahead of completing his full 20-year sentence. He has been serving terms for the murders of two tourists, an American and a Canadian, in the mid-1970s.
Ageless charmer; ruthless killer
Born in 1944 to an Indian father and a French mother, Charles, now 78, looks the same as I had found him in April 1986 when I brought him to Delhi in a chartered aircraft amidst media glare following his sensational Tihar jail escape of March 16, 1986. In preparing his dossier while he was in our custody, his modus operandi and character revealed themselves: a crook, confidence trickster and a heartless, ruthless killer targeting those who trusted him, often forming a ‘family bond’ with women friends who mostly did his bidding.
Ageless charmer; ruthless killer
Born in 1944 to an Indian father and a French mother, Charles, now 78, looks the same as I had found him in April 1986 when I brought him to Delhi in a chartered aircraft amidst media glare following his sensational Tihar jail escape of March 16, 1986. In preparing his dossier while he was in our custody, his modus operandi and character revealed themselves: a crook, confidence trickster and a heartless, ruthless killer targeting those who trusted him, often forming a ‘family bond’ with women friends who mostly did his bidding.