At least 17 of the 49 men convicted of raping or sexually assaulting Gisèle Pelicot have said they will appeal. Dominique Pelicot, the 72-year-old who drugged and raped his wife and recruited others to rape her, will not appeal his 20-year jail sentence, according to his lawyer Béatrice Zavarro.

For months, protesters swarmed the courtroom in France, cheering Gisele Pelicot and the feminist motto her case sparked – 'shame must change sides.'

Sitting across a courtroom from the husband who drugged and raped her for a decade, along with the 50 other men he invited to join in the attacks, Gisèle Pelicot was the epitome of dignity. After bravely choosing to waive her right to anonymity,

The Frenchman convicted of drugging and raping Gisele Pelicot and soliciting dozens of men to do the same for more than a decade will not appeal his verdict, his lawyer has said.

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.

The French man who was convicted of drugging and raping his then wife, Gisele Pelicot, and soliciting dozens strangers to do the same, will not appeal the verdict and 20-year prison sentence, his lawyers said Monday.