A French court has found Dominique Pelicot guilty of orchestrating a horrifying series of rapes against his ex-wife Gisèle Pélicot.

Judges in France on Thursday found a Frenchman guilty of all charges, including aggravated rape, after the 72-year-old was accused of repeatedly drugging his wife and recruiting dozens of men to rape her.

Dominique Pelicot has been given a 20-year prison sentence after being found guilty of the aggravated rape of his ex-wife Gisèle Pelicot by a court in the French city Avignon on Thursday, in a trial that horrified France and the world.

Dominique Pélicot, 72, the man who admitted to drugging his wife, Gisèle Pélicot, 72, and filming her being raped for nearly a decade from 2011 to 2020 in their home in France, has been found guilty and sentenced to 20 years at a trial in Avignon,

A court sentenced Mr. Pelicot to 20 years after he admitted to drugging and raping his wife, Gisèle, for nearly a decade, and inviting strangers to join him. The case has made her a feminist hero.

A French court found Dominique Pelicot guilty on Thursday of repeatedly drugging and raping his wife for almost a decade, and inviting dozens of strangers to rape her unconscious body. All the Frenchman's 50 co-defendants were also found guilty of rape,