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

Gisèle Pelicot spoke of her “very difficult ordeal” after 51 men were all found guilty Thursday in the drugging-and-rape trial.

Thibaut Rey, 38, spotted the serial rapist taking images of three women at the LeClerc shopping centre and confronted him, holding his phone until police arrived to make their arrest. “Pelicot didn’t resist. He froze with terror. I saw the fear in his eyes,” he said.

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,

Gisèle Pelicot said she had no regrets, but hope for the future after a judge sentenced her ex-husband to 20 years in prison for drugging and raping her for years.

Dominique Pelicot and 50 co-defendants have all been found guilty, with all except one having been charged with rape. The co-defendants were sentenced Thursday to between three an

AP explains after 51 men were convicted Thursday in the drugging-and-rape trial that riveted France and turned Gisele Pelicot into an icon.