Responding to an appeal filed by Sobhraj, a division bench of judges Balkrishna Upreti and Narayan Prasad Shah on Tuesday upheld the verdict. The district court had convicted and sentenced Sobhraj on September 18, 2014. Sobhraj had moved the appeallate court on May 7, 2015.Sobhraj, a French citizen of Vietnamese and Indian parentage, was convicted last year on the charge of murdering Canadian backpacker Laurent Carriere in 1975.
The 70-year-old had already served a life sentence in Nepal for the murder of US tourist Connie Joe Bronzich on Kathmandu's outskirts in 1975.
The bodies of Bronzich and her friend Carriere, both repeatedly stabbed and burnt beyond recognition, were found a few days apart in two different areas of the Kathmandu Valley.
Sobhraj, who has been linked to a string of backpacker deaths in Asia in the 1970s, has always maintained his innocence, saying he had never visited Nepal before being arrested at a Kathmandu casino in 2003.
Sobhraj had already served a 21-year sentence in India for culpable homicide before his arrest in Nepal. He has escaped from jails in Greece, Afghanistan and India.
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