Serial rapist's daughter makes 'devil' father eight-word promise as he faces life in prison

Serial rapist Dominique Pélicot, 71, was told by his 45-year-old daughter, Caroline Darian, that she volition ne'er spell to spot him successful situation and helium volition extremity up unsocial 'like a dog'

A serial rapist described by his household arsenic "the devil incarnate" for allowing dozens of strangers to interruption his woman was contiguous told by his ain daughter: "You volition extremity up unsocial similar a dog."

Frenchman Dominique Pélicot, 71, is facing spending the remainder of his beingness successful situation aft admitting each charges during his proceedings astatine the Vaucluse Criminal Court successful Avignon. He and 50 different defendants are accused of the "aggravated rape" of Gisèle Pélicot, present a 72-year-old grandma who divorced Mr Pélicot implicit the summer.

On Wednesday, their 45-year-old daughter, Caroline Darian, was progressive successful a disturbing speech with Mr Pélicot. Sitting down reinforced integrative successful a high-security dock, helium said: "This mightiness marque idiosyncratic shriek here, but I would similar to look my girl consecutive successful the eyes."

Ms Darian is convinced she was – similar her parent – secretly fed drugs to subdue her, truthful that her begetter could instrumentality pictures of her successful the nude portion she slept. Insisting helium "never touched my children oregon my grandchildren," Mr Pélicot said: "It hurts maine to spot her similar this, contempt what she thinks."

Ms Darian erupted successful fury astatine this point, saying: "You are going to perceive it present successful tribunal – I volition ne'er spell to spot you successful prison. You person had galore opportunities to spot us. You volition extremity up unsocial similar a dog." Mr Pélicot replied: "We ever extremity up each alone." This prompted his girl to say: "You especially."

It followed Mr Pélicot making a idiosyncratic plea to his family, saying: "I thought they would beryllium devastated, but not to this extent." In the tribunal proceeding connected Tuesday – the 48th time of the proceedings – Ms Pélicot herself denounced the "cowards" who raped her and blasted "a macho, patriarchal nine wherever rape is trivialised."

Staring continually astatine defendants aft waiving her ineligible close to anonymity, she said: "Since the opening of this trial, I person heard a batch of whispered, unacceptable things, but that is however this proceedings had to happen. I knew what I was going to beryllium exposed to by refusing to spell to a closed hearing. Obviously, I recognise that I americium feeling bushed today. I person been omnipresent. I find it precise hard erstwhile radical accidental that it is practically commonplace to person raped Madame Pelicot."

She added: "For me, this is simply a proceedings of cowardice. The proceedings of Gisèle Pelicot is the proceedings of cowardice." Becoming much emotional, Ms Pélicot said: "Society needs to unfastened its eyes to the information that we unrecorded successful a macho, patriarchal nine wherever rape is trivialised."

Ms Pélicot was supported successful tribunal by her youngest son, Florian Pélicot, 38, who connected Monday told his father: "I americium precise grateful to person our parent alive, but I person a batch of incomprehension astir what our begetter did." Mr Pélicot added: "You ever said that our parent was a saint. But you, you were the devil incarnate." All of the couple's 3 big children person testified against Dominique Pélicot.

The retired electrician and property cause crushed sleeping pills into his wife’s nutrient and drink, past invited the strangers to rape her betwixt 2011 and 2020. He kept hundreds of videos of rape connected his machine successful a record entitled "Abuse", and has admitted the complaint against him, telling the court: "I americium a rapist."

Some of his co-accused admit rape, portion others accidental they did not cognize Gisèle Pelicot was drugged, contempt videos showing her snoring loudly. Ms Pélicot, a erstwhile logistics manager, has go a feminist icon aft saying the proceedings has raised consciousness of the usage of drugs to rape women. Ms Pélicot said she had suffered "acts of barbarity" and would not "feel astatine bid until the extremity of my life."

She added: "I'll larn to unrecorded with it. I'll rebuild myself. But there'll everlastingly beryllium 51 radical who person defiled me." Fourteen different men beyond her hubby person confessed to raping her, portion the others contradict the charges, arguing that they thought Ms Pélicot had consented to having enactment with them.

Some of the defendants said they had been told by Mr Pélicot that his woman took sleeping pills "to relax", lone to find her unconscious erstwhile they entered the couple's home. She said that erstwhile the proceedings began her children were ashamed of the household sanction but added: "My sanction is known crossed the satellite now. My grandparents shouldn't beryllium ashamed of carrying that name. Today we volition retrieve Gisèle Pelicot." The proceedings continues and volition extremity connected December 21.