BBC – Tom Vater

Bangkok museum highlights curious fame of serial killer, in Nikkei Asia

April 6, 2022April 6, 2022tom

Shortly before Christmas 2003, Canadian photographer Steve Sandford and I were sitting in the visitors’ room of Kathmandu’s Central Jail. It was cold, damp and noisy as relatives held shouted conversations with inmates sitting on the other side of a concrete wall topped by a chicken-wire fence. We were there to interview Charles Sobhraj, Asia’s […]

Die Geschichte des berüchtigten „Bikini-Killers“ Charles Sobhraj – Podcast

April 8, 2021June 13, 2021tom

I’ve been interviewed by German travel magazine TRAVELBOOK about my 2003 encounter in Kathmandu with 1970s serial killer Charles Sobhraj, currently the subject of a BBC/Netflix series called The Serpent. German speakers, check out this podcast/article on the Bikini Killer.

Man who interviewed The Serpent in 2003 recalls how ‘consistently upbeat’ serial killer Charles Sobhraj spoke of his prison experience – or how the Daily Mail rewrites me & the Daily Telegraph

February 15, 2021June 13, 2021tomLeave a Comment

The Daily Mail Chloe Morgan has published a feature on Charles Sobhraj which essentially uses my recent Telegraph story I wrote about my encounter with the infamous serial killer, adds a bit more background and puts it out there as something new. A writer who interviewed serial killer Charles Sobhraj while he was behind bars […]

Not easy rock ‘n’ roll — the saving of Srey Thy – in the Nikkei Asian Review

March 9, 2015March 2, 2019tomLeave a Comment

TONIGHT on BBC Storyville – ROCKING CAMBODIA–RISE OF A POP DIVA, the incredible story of THE CAMBODIAN SPACE PROJECT & its singer Srey Thy. Here’s my article on the film’s main protagonist Srey Thy and its director Marc Eberle in The Nikkei Asian Review today – Not easy rock ‘n’ roll — the saving of […]