French serial killer Charles Sobhraj - whose murders inspired BBC drama The Serpent - was freed from prison in Nepal today.
It comes after he served most of his sentence for the murders of American and Canadian backpackers - slayings that were remembered in a BBC crime drama watched by more than 31 million Brits.
Sobhraj was driven out of Central Jail in Kathmandu today escorted by a heavily guarded police convoy to the Department of Immigration, where he will wait for his travel documents to be prepared.
