The veteran gangster who held Kim Kardashian up at gunpoint and left her thinking she would die today offered 'a thousand pardons' to the reality TV star.

Aomar Aït Khedache, 69, begged for forgiveness on Friday, just before a jury in Paris retired to consider a verdict in the case.

A total of nine men and a woman are in the dock at the French capital's Assizes court, accused of a variety of charges, including 'armed robbery' and 'kidnap in an organised gang'.

'I can't find the words to say how sorry I am,' were the words of Aït Khedache, who is now almost mute and partially deaf following years of ill health.

'I offer a thousand apologies,' he scribbled on a piece of paper, before his claims were displayed on a screen inside the historic Voltaire Chamber of the court.