A lawyer for the ex-husband of Gisèle Pelicot says he won’t appeal his 20-year sentence for drugging and raping her and allowing dozens of other men to also rape her while she was unconscious, in a case that revolted France.

Gisèle Pelicot said she had no regrets, but hope for the future after a judge sentenced her ex-husband to 20 years in prison for drugging and raping her for years.

Gisele Pelicot faced her former husband or one of the 50 other perpetrators who were recorded assaulting her on camera daily during the trial.

Hundreds of people have gathered in the southern French town of Avignon ahead of the verdict in a mass-rape trial in which dozens of men stand accused.

Dozens of men including the ex-husband of Gisèle Pelicot were found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting her in a historic trial that shocked France.

Gisele Pelicot's ex-husband was jailed on Thursday for 20 years over her drugging and mass rape by strangers recruited online, in a case that shocked France and resonated around the world.- 'Never regretted' - Dominique Pelicot has admitted to drugging Gisele Pelicot for almost a decade so he and strangers he recruited online could rape her.

A panel of judges in France is delivering verdicts for more than four dozen men charged with aggravated rape and sexual assault on Gisèle Pelicot.

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.