A court today delayed releasing its verdict in a paedophilia trial that scandalised France after 65 defendants – including relatives of some of the victims – were charged with molesting, raping and prostituting infants and young children.

Defence lawyers have wrapped up two weeks of closing arguments that marked the final testimony in a massive paedophilia trial that has horrified France.

In shocking videotaped testimony shown yesterday for the first time in France’s biggest paedophilia trial in recent memory, a young girl told of how games of “doctor” turned into a sexual ordeal.

Video evidence from some of the alleged 45 child victims of a French paedophile ring was delayed by a judge today.