Saturday, 3 February 2018
910 Shadow of the Cobra
First viewed : 19 July 1989
This was a two-part mini-series about the charismatic fraudster and serial killer Charles Sobrahj who murdered a number of Western tourists on the "hippie trail" in Asia in the 1970s. He also attracted a number of young women to aid and abet his activities in Charles Manson fashion and was able to charm and manipulate the authorities once captured. The series was based on a book by Richard Neville ( one of the defendants in the Oz trial ) and Julie Clarke who had visited him in prison. They were played as fictionalised versions of themselves by Michael Woods and the dreaded Rachel Ward while Art Malik ( who looked absolutely nothing like Sobrahj ) played the psychopath.
I only saw the second part which concentrated more on the two journalists after Sobrahj had committed the murders but I was intrigued enough to pursue the book. Sadly, our local bookseller wasn't able to trace it.
Sobrahj is currently serving a life sentence in Nepal.
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