A married shoe salesman has become the first Briton convicted in a global rape network linked to France‘s horrifying Pelicot case.
Darren Conway, 52, encouraged men to sexually assault their wives on an internet forum while the victims were unconscious, asleep or had been stupefied by drugs.
The case began after the worldwide revulsion at the abuse of 73-year-old Gisele Pelicot by her husband and 50 other men.
Following her plight, investigative journalists uncovered an international network of similar predators sharing the abuse of drugged women, spurring law enforcement into action. The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) discovered Conway was one of eight
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