Prosecutors demand 20 year jail term for Dominique Pelicot

Prosecutors demand 20-year jail term for Dominique Pelicot

Pelicot has admitted drugging and raping his wife, Gisèle, and inviting at least 70 strangers to rape and abuse her. French prosecutors have demanded that Dominique Pelicot be jailed for 20 years, ...

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Dominique Pelicot, 72, is facing the maximum sentence for rape in a case that has horrified France.

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A high-profile rape trial in France is moving into a new phase with prosecutors setting out the verdicts and punishments they want for 51 men men accused of raping Gisèle Pelicot, 71, while she was ...

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Entertainment - ABC News - November 19

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South Korean opposition leader gets a suspended jail term for violating election law

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Ukraine-born Nadezhda Buyanova was accused of referring to young patient’s late soldier father as ‘legitimate target’. A Russian court has sentenced an elderly Moscow paediatrician to five and a ...

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