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Nepal releases French serial killer "The Serpent' after 19 years in jail

A Frenchman whose life of seduction, murder and escape on the "hippie trail" during the 1970s became the subject for a hit TV series was freed on Friday after 19 years in prison in Nepal.

Radio France Internationale

Man convicted over German train knife attack that wounded 4

A German court has convicted a man of attempted murder and bodily harm and sentenced him to 14 years in prison over a knife attack on a train last year that left four people wounded

The Independent UK

'The Serpent' serial killer Charles Sobhraj freed from prison after murdering up to 24

Charles Sobhraj, otherwise known as The Serpent, was driven out of Central Jail in Kathmandu, Nepal, in a heavily guarded police convoy after spending two decades in jail for the murders of American and Canadian backpackers

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Serial killer Charles Sobhraj whose story was turned into hit TV drama The Serpent is released from prison

Charles Sobhraj is thought to have killed at least 20 people

Wales Online

French serial killer Charles Sobhraj released from Nepal prison

He spent 19 years in jail in Nepal for two murders in 1975 and was freed given his age and for good behaviour.

Al Jazeera

New details: Cuba spy soon to be freed was willing to divulge US war plans in Afghanistan

Ana Belén Montes, the convicted Cuba spy who is set to be released from prison in January, was willing to pass military secrets about the U.S. war in Afghanistan if requested by her spymasters in Havana, even if that resulted in the death of American soldiers on the ground, she…

Miami Herald

Notorious French serial killer freed from Nepal prison

Confessed French serial killer Charles Sobhraj has been released from prison in Nepal after serving most of his sentence

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'Serpent' Sobhraj headed back to France

KATHMANDU: French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, responsible for multiple murders in the 1970s in Thailand and across Asia, was heading to France on Friday after being freed following almost 20 years in a Nepali prison.

Bangkok Post

Convicted killer Charles Sobhraj freed from Nepal prison - Reuters witness

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Reuters

Brittney Griner asks supporters to advocate for Paul Whelan

Brittney Griner has asked her supporters to advocate for the release of Paul Whelan, a former Marine serving a 16-year prison term in Russia for espionage charges the United States are baseless.

WEKU

'Stupid' teenager huffed balloons during high speed police chase then reversed into officer

Rio Gregory, 18, was given a suspended prison sentence for causing actual bodily harm to a police officer

Manchester Evening News

Charles 'The Serpent' Sobhraj freed from Nepal prison, heads to France

Charles Sobhraj, a convicted killer who police say is responsible for a string of murders in the 1970s and 1980s, was released from a Nepal prison on Friday after nearly two decades behind bars.

Reuters

Drug-carting drone crashes into prison

Parcel delivery has soared to new heights with a drone carrying drugs to inmates worth $250,000 crashing in a Townsville jail.

AAP

Drone used in attempt to smuggle $250,000 worth of drugs into Townsville Correctional Centre

Patrolling officers discovered the crashed drone and a package of drugs on the prison grounds last month.

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Los Angeles Times

UCSF apologizes for experiments done on prisoners in the '60s and '70s

The University of California, San Francisco has issued a public apology after conducting an investigation into experiments performed by two faculty members in the 1960s and '70s on prisoners, some of whom were mentally ill. In many cases, there was no record that the prisoners had provided informed consent.

The Independent UK

Adnan Syed hired by Georgetown's prison reform initiative

Adnan Syed, who was released from a Maryland prison this year after his case was the focus of the true-crime podcast “Serial,” has been hired by Georgetown University as a program associate for the university’s Prisons and Justice Initiative

Chicago Sun-Times

Making domestic battery an automatic felony could backfire

A night or two in jail could lead to job loss and the main source of income for affected families. Survivors may drop charges if they feel that their abuser may be sent to prison.

The Independent UK

California university apologizes for prisoner experiments

A prominent California medical school has apologized for conducting dozens of unethical medical experiments on at least 2,600 incarcerated men in the 1960s and 1970s

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Brittney Griner Asks Fans to Write Letters to Paul Whelan

The WNBA star urged fans to join her in sending letters to the former Marine who remains behind bars in a Russian prison.

Tribune News Service

Adnan Syed hired by Georgetown University for its prison reform organization

BALTIMORE — Adnan Syed is now a Georgetown University employee, the private university in Washington, D.C., announced.

Liverpool Echo

Pervert headteacher out of prison just weeks before he struck again

Sex offender was out of prison for a matter of weeks before he 'went back to his old ways'

Daily Record

Britain's most evil offenders who will spend the rest of their lives behind bars

Damien Bendall who brutally murdered his girlfriend and three children last year has recently joined the list of the UK's most twisted criminals who have been sentenced to a whole-life order in prison.

Daily Mirror

Boris Becker reunited with 87-year-old mum after deportation following prison stint

Fallen tennis star Boris Becker was released from prison and deported back to Germany this week, after serving just eight months of his two and a half year sentence

Daily Mirror

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp lifts lid on "risk" of visiting Boris Becker in prison

Boris Becker recently left prison after serving eight months of a two-and-a-half-year sentence, and Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp was deemed too big a security risk to visit the tennis icon

Nottingham Post

Head of 'family from hell' who tortured and murdered daughter-in-law dies in prison

Rachel, a young mum, was tortured, insulted and humiliated by the family members after she moved in with them in Stockhill, Nottingham, in November 2002.

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