Can you imagine getting on a plane and thinking you’re about to have a normal, smooth ride, only to realize you’re sitting next to a serial killer!? Well, that actually happened to a woman last week!
Journalist Jairaj Singh recently shared the photo on Twitter with the caption, “That awkward moment when you realize you’re sitting next to a serial killer who claimed at least 30 lives.” The now-viral tweet has been viewed over 660,000 times.
Charles Sobhraj, also known as “The Serpent,” was freed from poison last week. He has been accused of killing nearly two dozen tourists around Asia in the 1970s. Between 1972 and 1982, Sobhraj is believed to have killed at least 20 people in Afghanistan, India, Thailand, Turkey, Nepal, Iran and Hong Kong, according to reports.
It was said that he allegedly befriended his victims, gave advice on where to dine, and sometimes let them stay at the apartment he shared with his girlfriend before murdering them.
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Starting from 1976 he was arrested in New Delhi and accused of murdering two tourists and stealing their jewelry. Although he was convicted of the theft he was acquitted of murder. In Thailand, he faced 14 murder charges but avoided being extradited by staying before the courts in India until the Thai case expired in 1996. On top of that, he also faced the death penalty in Thailand.
Now socialites, get a load of this: In 1986, he found a way to escape from New Delhi’s maximum-security Tihar prison… after luring guards into sharing a drug-laced birthday cake. As strategic as that was, he was later taken back into custody.
After living freely in 1997, he was deported from India to France but couldn’t stay out of trouble there. He was investigated for allegedly trying to poison a group of French tourists in India.
After all that, he popped back up in 2003 in a casino in the Nepalese city of Kathmandu, and was questioned about the unsolved murders. He was later convicted the following year and handed a life sentence — which, in Nepal, is only 20 years.
While he has spent a great amount of time in-and-out of the slammer, apparently he’s now a changed man. His French lawyer, Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, told The AP that Sobhraj will contest his conviction in Nepal, and received him as an “optimist” and resilient after nearly 20 years behind bars.
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