KATHMANDU, Oct 25: French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, who has appealed a conviction for the murder of an US woman in Nepal, faces another charge for killing a Canadian woman, prosecutors said on Thursday.

“Sobhraj will be tried in a pending case of the murder of a Canadian (woman) after the Supreme Court’s verdict on his appeal on Nov 4,” Nepal government prosecutor Bishwalal Shrestha said.

Known as the ‘Bikini Killer’, Sobhraj was convicted in 2004 in Kathmandu for a murder of Connie Jo Bronzich of the United States in 1975, and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

He is now appealing that sentence before the Supreme Court, arguing that he was not in Kathmandu at the time Bronzich was murdered.—AFP