Judges in France to deliver verdicts in Gisele Pelicot historic rape trial

The ordeal inflicted over nearly a decade on Gisele Pelicot in what she thought was a loving marriage, and her courage during the trial has transformed the retired power company worker into a feminist hero of the nation

Gisele Pelicot (Picture;Lewis Joly/AP)

A panel of five judges in France is to deliver verdicts for more than four dozen men charged with aggravated rape and sexual assault on Gisele Pelicot in a historic case that has shaken France.

Among the men on trial is Dominique Pelicot, the now ex-husband of the 72-year-old grandmother who admitted that for years, he knocked his wife of 50 years out with drugs so he and strangers he recruited online could abuse her while he filmed the assaults.