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The safety guard who caught Dominique Pelicot upskirting ladies at a grocery store, which led to the invention of his abusive crimes, has recalled the “terror” and “worry” in his eyes.

Thibaut Rey, 38, noticed the serial rapist taking photos of three ladies on the LeClerc buying centre and confronted him, holding his telephone till police arrived to make their arrest.

Dominique Pelicot was discovered responsible by a French court docket of repeatedly drugging and raping his spouse for nearly a decade, and welcoming dozens of strangers to rape her unconscious physique in a case that has horrified the world.

All of Pelicot’s 50 co-defendants have been additionally discovered responsible of rape, tried rape or sexual assault, whereas their sufferer, Gisèle Pelicot, sat within the packed courtroom to listen to the sentencing, having waived her proper to anonymity.

Gisèle, 72, has turn out to be an emblem of feminine braveness and resilience throughout the three-month trial and crowds of supporters exterior the courthouse within the southern metropolis of Avignon cheered as she appeared after the verdicts had been learn out.

On 12 September 2020, Mr Ray stated he watched Pelicot on CCTV and noticed he positioned the digicam on his telephone to movie the underwear of unsuspecting ladies.

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“We labored out that the telephone was jutting out of this bag, and he was filming up their skirts,” Mr Ray instructed the Each day Mail.

“We noticed him do that to 3 ladies, and he was clearly fairly good at it.

“It did not appear to be the primary time he had achieved it.”

When the 38-year-old safety guard positioned the primary sufferer, she refused to file a report as a result of she was pressed for time, he stated.

However when his surveillance room coworker knowledgeable him that he was nonetheless concerned with one other girl, he made the choice to face him head-on. He stated he used a “strong-arm” methodology to make the sufferer realise how extreme the offence was. Mr Ray grabbed Pelicot’s telephone and held him by the arm till the police arrived.

“I used to be pondering of my mom and sister, who store right here, so it obtained a bit private,” he instructed the Each day Mail.

“Pelicot didn’t resist. He froze with terror. I noticed the worry in his eyes.”

Dominique Pelicot, who was married to Gisele for 50 years, had pleaded responsible to the fees and a panel of 5 judges sentenced him to the utmost 20 years in jail, as requested by prosecutors.

The court docket discovered 46 of the opposite defendants responsible of rape, two responsible of tried rape and two responsible of sexual assault, handing down sentences of between three and 15 years in jail, lower than the four-to-18 years demanded by the prosecution.