A French court on Friday sentenced a man to 15 years in jail for drugging and raping his partner and filming the acts, for which he sought advice from notorious convicted rapist Dominique Pelicot.
The 39-year-old former bodyguard was found guilty of all charges, a decision justified by verbal violence in the repeated and long videos he filmed, the court said, stripping him of parental rights over his son he had with his partner, a 40-year-old shopkeeper.
The Lyon court's president Dominique Thevenet, said the defendant's "traits of perversity" had greatly "disturbed" her.
The man, who has not been named in order to protect his victim, was impassive hearing the verdict.
His partner wept in her father’s arms before smiling a few moments later.
