The Serpent's evil serial killer Charles Sobhraj, 79, spotted in London brushing against tourists
ok.co.ukFreed serial killer Charles Sobhraj, who allegedly murdered 20 backpackers in Asia, has been spotted amongst tourists in London.The 79-year-old French man was released from a Nepalese prison in 2022 after spending nearly two decades behind bars.
Sobhraj, who inspired the hit BBC drama The Serpent in 2021, is suspected of killing at least 20 Western tourists who were travelling through Asia's "hippy trail" in the 1970s and 1980s.
Now pictures show him visiting the UK wearing a false beard and wig, while he his being filmed for a documentary. The Serpent, which starred Tahar Rahim as Sobhraj and Jenna Coleman as his accomplice Marie-Andree Leclerc, told the tale of the con-artist who was said to have drugged, robbed and killed backpackers across Thailand, India and Nepal.
In the new Channel 4 documentary The Real Serpent: Investigating a Serial Killer, he was filmed on London's Westminster Bridge.
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