However, 17 of the 49 men who were convicted of raping or sexually assaulting Ms Pelicot at Dominique's behest have said they will appeal. More could follow before the window to l

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.

At least 17 of the 49 men convicted of raping or sexually assaulting Gisèle Pelicot have said they will appeal. Dominique Pelicot, the 72-year-old who drugged and raped his wife and recruited others to rape her, will not appeal his 20-year jail sentence, according to his lawyer Béatrice Zavarro.

The ex-husband of Gisele Pelicot said Monday he will not appeal his conviction after he and dozens of others were found guilty in December of a series of sexual crimes against his wife.

Pelicot’s ex-husband, Dominique Pelicot, and all but one of his co-defendants were convicted of sexually assaulting her over a period of nearly a decade.

Dominique Pelicot will not appeal against his 20-year sentence for orchestrating the mass rape of his former wife Gisèle Pelicot in a case that horrified France and turned a 72-year-old grandmother into a feminist idol.

Dominique Pelicot, sentenced to 20 years in prison for rape and drugging his wife, will not appeal the verdict. "Dominique Pelicot has decided not to file an appeal against the verdict issued on December 19 by the criminal court in Vaucluse,