A French serial killer known as The Serpent, has left Nepal after being released from prison for good behaviour.
78-year-old Charles Sobhraj was freed after a court ruled in favour of his age and good behaviour.
He had spent 19 years in jail in Nepal for killing two North Americans in 1975.
He had been convicted of several tourist murders in Asia in the 1970s.
Sobhraj targets were mostly young Western backpackers on the hippie trail in India and Thailand.
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He was deported to France on Friday and has reportedly been barred from returning to Nepal for at least 10 years.
The notorious killer, had been concurrently serving two sentences, each 20 years, in Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, for the 1975 murder of an American woman, Connie Jo Bronzich, and her Canadian backpacker friend, Laurent Carriere.
