Gardener 'received an offer from his drugged wife to rape him in exchange for tidying up the Avignon Monster's yard'

A witness claimed that the Avignon Monster asked him to do some gardening work at his house in exchange for allowing him to rape his drugged-up wife.

The man, identified as Jerome B, was in contact with Dominique Pelicot in March 2020 and told the packed courtroom in the south of France that the retired electrician had offered him sex with his 50-year-old partner in exchange for his services.

Pelicot, 71, admitted to leaving his wife Gisele unconscious and then inviting dozens of men to rape her in a decade-long campaign of abuse.

The vile attacks were only discovered when he was caught having sex with women in a local supermarket, with a subsequent police search of his home revealing thousands of photographs of his wife in a computer file marked “Abuse”.

Jerome B was identified in the depraved documents but his file was reportedly left empty as he never went to the couple’s home in the village of Mazan in Provence.

Dominique Pélicot is accused of recruiting men online to repeatedly assault his wife over 10 years

The Pelicot house in the village of Mazan, today known as the house of horrors

Gisele Pelicot courageously renounced her right to anonymity to unmask the alleged perpetrators of a case that shocked the world

Speaking from the witness stand today, he said he “refused to go” after Pelicot told him his wife would be drugged because he considered it rape.

The truck driver, who ultimately had no charges against him in the case, is now giving evidence in a trial that has seen 50 men accused of raping Ms Pelicot.

“He asked me to do some gardening work and in return he offered me his wife,” he told the court.

‘I suggested this to him one Saturday morning, he said no because he gave her a pill to make her fall asleep.

‘He added that he drugged his wife and offered her to men frequently. I told him it was rape and that I didn’t agree.’

A second man, called Cyril F, who reportedly had an “empty file” in the case, also gave evidence today.

He told the court he had a brief conversation with Pelicot on coco.fr, ‘until he told me that his wife would be taking pills and that she would probably be asleep when I arrived’.

“I thought it was a young man saying nonsense, I didn’t think someone could drug his wife and I ended the conversation,” said the 48-year-old civil servant.

He added that he did not remember whether Pelicot had told him that he was administering the sleeping pills in secret or whether Gisele was taking them herself.

Gisele Pelicot is seen arriving at court on October 8, 2024 in Avignon, France

The abuse occurred in the city of Mazan, in the south of France, and was only discovered after the man was caught bypassing women in a local supermarket, which led officers to search his home.

Gisele Pelicot courageously renounced her right to anonymity to unmask the alleged perpetrators of a case that shocked the world.

Over the past four weeks, the trial in Avignon has heard man after man claim that Pelicot had “tricked” them into participating in his twisted fantasies of raping and humiliating his wife – many of which were filmed.

Pelicot loved watching strangers abuse his wife, he made home movies and took photos.

The stockpile of 20,000 images, recording the horrific scenes, was only discovered when it was finally captured in September 2020.