Frenchman Jean-Pierre Marechal has told a court that Dominique Pelicot supplied him with tranquilisers and convinced him to abuse his own wife. Latest U.S.

Frenchman Jean-Pierre Marechal has told a court that Dominique Pelicot supplied him with tranquilisers and convinced him to abuse his own wife.

Gisele Pelicot rape trial verdict: Jean Pierre Marechal, a Dominique Pelicot copycat, was sentenced to 12 years in jail for drugging and raping his own wife. Five judges have convicted Dominique ...

They committed rape," Gisele Pelicot, 72, told the court after her now ex-husband Dominique and the accomplice, Jean-Pierre Marechal, gave testimony on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively.

Police have said Jean-Pierre Marechal, 63, worked with Pelicot to drug and both rape Marechal’s wife Cilia after meeting on a now-shuttered website.

“I’m in jail and I deserve it,” 63-year-old Jean-Pierre Marechal, a co-defendant in the mass rape trial that has shocked France, told the court in Avignon. “What I did is appalling.

Police have said Jean-Pierre Marechal, 63, worked with Pelicot to drug and both rape Marechal's wife Cilia after meeting on a now-shuttered website. ADVERTISEMENT. The trial of Pelicot and 50 other ...

Jean-Pierre Marechal, 63, told the French courtroom that Dominique Pélicot acted as a mentor to him after the pair met on a now-defunct website, where Dominique shared images of other men raping ...

Among the convicted is 63-year-old Jean Pierre Marechal, who was sentenced to 12 years though prosecutors had requested 17 years. However, he was not accused of raping Gisele Pelicot.

Frenchman Jean-Pierre Marechal has told a court that Dominique Pelicot supplied him with tranquilisers and convinced him to abuse his own wife.

Police have said Jean-Pierre Marechal, 63, worked with Pelicot to drug and both rape Marechal's wife Cilia after meeting on a now-shuttered website. The trial of Pelicot and 50 other men accused ...