The Avignon monster has accepted he will die “like a dog” after admitting he drugged his wife and invited dozens of strangers he met online to rape her.

Dominique Pelicot, 71, admitted sedating Gisele, his wife of 50 years, with powerful sedatives before he and other men raped her at their family home for 10 years.

The rapist appeared in court for the last time as a panel of judges prepares to deliver their verdict on a trial that has rocked France for the past 10 weeks.

Making his final statement this morning, Mr Pelicot admitted to the court he was a sex addict but denied drugging his daughter Caroline Darian in her 20s and photographing her semi-naked on a bed in her underwear .

Questioned by his lawyer, Maître Zavarro, Pelicot maintained that he had not abused his daughter, who, in an outburst of anger earlier in the day, shouted: “I will never see us again! You will die alone like a dog!’

He said: “If I took those pictures (of Caroline drugged and half-naked) then I don’t remember taking them.

“She’ll never believe me.” I might die like a dog.

“I’m not asking him to stand behind my coffin (when I die). There will be no coffin.

Dominique Pelicot is accused of allowing several men to rape his wife while she was sedated

Pelicot’s wife of 50 years, Gisele (pictured), was drugged with powerful sedatives before he and other men raped her at their family home for ten years.

Mr Pelicot admitted in court that he was a sex addict but denied drugging his daughter Caroline Darian (pictured) when she was in her 20s.

Pelicot had earlier admitted to the court that he was addicted to sex and described the women’s drug practice as “s***”.

The main suspect completed his final statement this morning.

Ms Pelicot’s lawyers will make their closing statements later.

Yesterday, Ms Pelicot took the opportunity to condemn what she called “macho, patriarchal society that trivialises rape” after hearing “a lot of objectionable, whispered things” about the trial.

“I knew what I would be exposed to by refusing to go to a closed hearing,” she told the court in southeastern France this morning.

“Obviously, I admit that I feel tired today. I was omnipresent. I find it very hard when people say that it’s practically common to have raped Mrs. Pelicot.

The courtroom in southeastern France was packed as Ms Pelicot reflected on the impact of a decade-long campaign of abuse in which she was raped and abused by her husband and dozens of other men while she was unconscious.

The trial of Dominique Pelicot and his 50 co-defendants – described by Caroline as “the worst sex case in France in the last 20 years – is expected to end at the end of December.

The case continues.