Dominique Pelicot, the now ex-husband of Gisele Pelicot, 72, was sentenced on Thursday after being found guilty of drugging her and inviting strangers to rape her

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 in a case that has horrified the world.

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

Speaking in court on Thursday, Dominique Pelicot said: "I am guilty of what I did. I subjected my wife, my children, my grandchildren to this. I regret what I did. I ask for forgiveness even if it is

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.

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.

Pelicot will now be facing further investigation for the rape and murder of an estate agent in Paris in 1991 and attempted rape in 1999

It was something in Dominique Pelicot's swagger, his "élan" - as the French might put it - that immediately struck the psychiatrist as odd. There he stood. A 68-year-old pensioner who had already spent several months inside one of France's most notorious prisons,

Dominique Pelicot has been found guilty on all charges and sentenced to 20 years in prison for drugging is now ex-wife, Gisele Pelicot. The CBC’s Sarah Leavitt has more.

His loved ones knew him as a devoted family man. But he had for years been recruiting dozens of strangers to rape his drugged wife without her knowledge.