KIDNEY THIEF SERIAL KILLER THREW CORPSES TO CROCS

A SERIAL killer who saw off more than 50 taxi and lorry drivers and threw their dead bodies to CROCODILES has finally been caught.

In the early Noughties, killer Devender Sharma was convicted of murdering up to seven taxi drivers and given a life sentence in Jaipur, India.

After spending 16 years in prison, the 62- year- old was given a short parole in January.

But when his 20 days on the outside were up, Sharma didn’t return to the jail.

Cops arrested him in Delhi, where he’d been living with a widow who he’d married since failing to return from parole.

Sharma graduated with a degree in medicine and ran a clinic at a hospital in Rajasthan for 11 years, until 1995.

After losing money in a scam, he got involved in a scheme selling fake gas canisters – telling detectives he murdered lorry drivers and stole their gas bottles.

NABBED: Devender Sharma

He then took part in a scheme involving illegal kidney transplants using organs stolen from murdered taxi drivers, and was nicked in 2004.

According to police, he admitted being involved with more than 125 such transplants.

Sharma told cops he and others worked on another scheme in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.

They hired taxis and later killed the drivers at secluded places, then dumped the bodies in a canal home to crocodiles – meaning there was no chance remains could be retrieved and the organ thefts discovered.

After the bodies were dumped, Sharma sold the taxis – either whole or in parts.

Although Sharma confessed to being the mastermind behind the murder of more than 50 taxi drivers, he has only been convicted of a handful of the killings.