Gisele Pelicot, the 72-year-old victim of mass rape whose ordeal has shocked the world, told a trial in southern France on Wednesday that she was determined that making her case public should help other women and change society.

Gisele Pelicot says her husband "reached the lowest depths of the human soul" by drugging and raping her - and any shame is his to bear.

Her husband is accused of inviting strangers to sexually assault her while she was drugged and unconscious. The trial has transformed the way France discusses sexual violence.

France may introduce changes to its rape law to include consent for the first time, after a mass rape trial shook the country, challenging the limits of existing legislation and prompting some leading politicians to call for change.

The sensational trial of 50 men accused of raping an unwitting and unconscious French woman who was repeatedly drugged by her husband has exposed what critics say is a dark rape culture in the country.

Grandmother Gisele Pelicot takes the stand in mass rape trial of her ex-husband in France with a message to other rape survivors.

Gisèle Pelicot takes the stand in the trial in which her ex-husband is accused of drugging her and inviting dozens of men to rape her.

The profile of a rapist is not someone met in a car-park late at night - a rapist can also be in the family, among our friends,’ Gisèle Pelicot tells court