A Frenchman who thought he was a “good husband” by day while allegedly enabling strangers to rape his drugged wife at night was a “Jekyll and Hyde” character, a court heard on Monday.
On the sixth day of Dominique Pélicot’s criminal trial in Avignon, the court heard details of a psychological report which said he had the “two-faced personality” of a “sex addict” and “manipulative pervert”.
It meant Mr Pelicot, 71, acted like the spit-personality character in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the Gothic horror novel by Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson, the report said.
The retired electrician is facing up to 20 years in prison, along with 51 other defendants who are all accused of the aggravated rape of Gisèle Pélicot, 71.
Psychologists reported that he was “relieved to finally be arrested” in 2020, following a decade of violent abuse.
Mr Pélicot told detectives that he considered himself a “good husband” to Mrs Pélicot, who he married in 1971 and had three children with.