A lawyer for one of the men charged in a mass rape trial in France pleaded for leniency on Tuesday, saying his client did not deserve the 14-year prison term demanded by the prosecution.
The 46-year-old defendant, a manual labourer identified only as Jean-Luc L., is among the dozens of strangers that the main defendant, Dominique Pelicot, admitted to having enlisted to rape his then-wife while she was drugged unconscious.
