I was drugged & abused – I was dead, a piece of meat, says wife ‘raped by 51 men on husband’s orders’

BRAVE grandmother Gisele Pelicot barely wavered yesterday as she stood up to face the 51 men alleged to have raped her at the request of her husband.

Taking the stand for the first time at a trial which has shocked the world, the 71-year-old mother of three told how she had been left “a heap of ruins” by the ultimate betrayal of a man she had considered a “well-intentioned and nice guy” during their 51-year-marriage.