Channel 5 is preparing a documentary about France’s mass rape trial, which has stunned the world and is currently in its last stretches after 11 weeks of hearings. At the center of the trial is Gisèle Pelicot,

A mammoth rape trial in France is moving into a new phase with prosecutors setting out the verdicts and punishments they want for 51 men men accused of raping Gisèle Pelicot while she was drugged and rendered unconscious by her husband.

A Town on Trial' will look at Ms Pelicot, a 72-year-old woman drugged by her former husband and abused for a decade by at least 70 strangers he had recruited online.

Dominique Pelicot invited men to rape his wife, whom he had drugged. The French media call them “Mr. Every Man” because they come from such ordinary backgrounds.

French prosecutors have demanded prison sentences of up to 20 years for 51 men accused of participating in the repeated drugging and rape of Gisèle Pelicot over a decade. The trial, known as the Mazan rape case,