KATHMANDU, Jan 13: Nepal’s Supreme Court on Tuesday delayed its final verdict on the appeal of “Bikini Killer” Charles Sobhraj against his conviction for murdering a US backpacker in 1975.

French national Sobhraj was found guilty five years ago of killing Connie Joe Bronzich, a tourist who was repeatedly stabbed and her body burnt almost beyond recognition and then dumped on the outskirts of Kathmandu.

The supreme court sent the trial back to a lower court, which it asked to re-examine the case of an alleged fake passport that Sobhraj’s lawyers say the police produced to prove he was in the country at the time of the murder.—AFP

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