The Serpent killer Charles Sobhraj clashes with former cop Jackie Malton in new C4 doc
SERIAL killer Charles Sobhraj has broken his silence in a bombshell new interview to outrageously claim he "hasn't killed a single person" despite being jailed for horrifying murders.- has a history of drugging and killing victims and has been linked to the murders of up to 30 backpackers on the hippie trail across Asia in the 1970s.
As slippery as his reptile namesake, Sobhraj denies all the murders and shockingly tries to claim the media has “brainwashed” people into believing he is a monster - despite confessing to ten murders in a 1979 book for which he was paid £15,000, the equivalent of £90,000 today. The only ‘emotion’ he shows is at the mention of Marie-Andree Leclerc - AKA Monique - who died of cancer in 1983, after the couple were jailed in India.“It’s because she was with me that it was not detected,” he says, wiping tears away as he breaks for the first time.
After taking to petty crime as a teenager he was estranged from his family and, in interviews with Professor Britton, he refuses to delve into his relationship with his mother, who he calls a “very selfish woman”. He then returned to France, drugging his mother-in-law’s tea to prevent her raising the alarm, before fleeing to Iran with his infant daughter.Dutch woman Georgina Nunez, then an 18-year-old backpacker, met Sobhraj in Goa in 1972 and began travelling with him but she says he became controlling.
He stopped several times on the journey to inject his victim, she says, adding that when she insisted on checking the boot herself: “I saw Mohammed in a pool of blood and I could tell he was dead. I flipped out”.The French conman met Marie-Andree Leclerc in Thailand, in 1975, shortly before the murders of the five backpackers.
In chilling audio, recorded by authors Richard Neville and Julie Clarke for their 1979 book, Sobhraj confesses to her murder, saying: “She said ‘did you give me something because I feel very funny?’ I said ‘I’m sorry Teresa but I have to do something bad to you.’” But it was the disappearance of the Dutch couple Henk Bintanja, 29, and Cornelia Hemker, 25 - allegedly drugged, strangled and burned by Sobhraj and his accomplice Ajay Chowdhury - which sparked the investigation by diplomat Herman Knippenberg and his wife Angela which would lead to his arrest.March 1961 - Aged 16, Sobrhraj is arrested for armed robberies on two women in Paris. Received a six month suspended sentence.
June 1976 - Sobhraj or an accomplice drugged Jean Luc Solomon, a French tourist, in Delhi, India, who later died. December 2022 - Sobhraj released from prison in Nepal on health and age grounds and returns to France. Although he was arrested by Thai police in March 1976, he was later released and fled to India where two tourists he met - Alan Aaron Jacobs and Jean-Luc Solomon - died.
Sobhraj and Leclerc were jailed for the culpable homicide “not amounting to murder” of Soloman and acquitted for the murder of Jacobs.
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