What happened to Charles Sobhraj's girlfriend Monique and The Serpent's ... trends now
It's been five decades since the chilling murders committed by French serial killer Charles Sobhraj and his girlfriend Marie-Andree Leclerc gripped the globe - and now, they've become the focus of a new Channel 4 docuseries.
The new three-part series, The Real Serpent: Investigating a Serial Killer, is set to air on Channel 4 tonight at 9pm and will provide an 'unparalleled insight' into the life and crimes of the murderer, which took eight years in total to make.
Sobhaj, 79, preyed on Western tourists on the hippie trail of South Asia in the 1970s and lured them to their death - with his 'snake-like ability' to seduce and avoid detection by authorities earning him the notorious nickname The Serpent.
The killer returned home to Paris, France, in December 2022 to start a new life after he was released from prison in Nepal, where he served 19 years for his murderous crimes.
His life of crime and links to more than 20 killings were dramatised in the eight-part BBC miniseries 'The Serpent' - which later prompted the killer to threaten to sue the broadcaster, as well as Netflix, over the release of the 'falsified' TV drama.
The hit show also shed light on the combined efforts of his lover Marie-Andrée Leclerc, also known as Monique, who was played by Jenna Coleman, and accomplice Ajay Chowdhury, who helped in manipulating Sobhaj's victims.
But what did the pair do and where are they now?
Charles Sobhaj (L), 79, preyed on Western tourists in South Asia in the 1970s and lured them to their death, with the help of lover Marie-Andrée Leclerc (L) and accomplice Ajay Chowdhury
Sobhraj (pictured) returned home to Paris, France, in December 2022 to start a new life after he was released from prison in Nepal, where he served 19 years for his murderous crimes
In the Spring of 1975, Sobhraj met Marie-Andrée Leclerc, also known as Monique, a medical secretary from Quebec travelling India when he acted as her guide of the country.
Sobhraj had been financing his lifestyle by posing as either a salesman or drug dealer to impress tourists, who he then drugged, robbed and often murdered.
While he claimed that murders were often accidental drug overdoses, it was later alleged by investigators that Sobhraj's motive for murder was silencing victims who threatened to expose him.
At this point the killer had been joined by Ajay Chowdhury, a young Indian man whom Sobhraj had met in a New Delhi park in 1975.
Soon after, Sobhraj offered him a job as a handyman that would lead to him being drawn into a web of theft and murder.
Three months after their initial meeting, Leclerc later flew to Bangkok to meet him after months of him seducing her with love letters - turning a blind eye to his philandering with local women.
In the Spring of 1975, Sobhraj met Marie-Andrée Leclerc (pictured), also known as Monique, a medical secretary from Quebec travelling India when he acted as her guide of the country
At this point the killer had been joined by Ajay Chowdhury (pictured), a young Indian man whom Sobhraj had met in a New Delhi park in 1975
Besotted, Leclerc became entwined in Sobhraj's vicious crime spree, and would help him drug tourists to steal their passports and money.
Sobhraj and Leclerc first made a living by
