A retired business owner is on trial in France charged with drugging his wife and inviting more than 80 men to rape her over a decade while she was unconscious.
In a case that has shocked France and drawn attention to predators who use chemicals to sedate their victims, Dominique Pélicot, 71, has admitted that he mixed ground sleeping pills and tranquillisers into the food and drink of his wife, Gisèle, 72, as a prelude to the crimes in which he also took part and filmed.
At the start of the trial of Mr Pélicot and 50 men accused of raping her, the presiding judge granted a request by his wife for the proceedings to be public, including playbacks of her ordeals, Antoine Camus, her