内容摘要：Campbell, who won gold at London 2012, will represent more than 610,000 people who live in the region.

Campbell, who won gold at London 2012, will represent more than 610,000 people who live in the region.

One of the defendants, who has admitted the charges, previously calledthe trial rushed and "botched".

Campaigners said this case proved the need for consent to be built into France's rape laws, as in other European countries.From 2011 to 2020, Dominique Pelicot plied his wife with tranquilising drugs and sleeping pills without her knowledge, crushed them into powder and added them to her food and drink.Gisèle Pelicot suffered memory loss and blackouts because of the drugs and she has spoken of 10 years of her life that have been lost.

He was eventually caught because a security guard reported him to police for taking photographs under women's skirts in a supermarket."I thought we were a close couple," she once told the court. Instead, her husband was going on a notorious but now banned website called Coco.fr to invite local men to their home to have sex with her while she was comatose.

"I was sacrificed on the altar of vice," Gisèle Pelicot said early in the trial.

Since the start of September, Judge Roger Arata and his four colleagues have heard how 50 men, now aged between 27 and 74, visited the Pelicots' home in the village of Mazan.While the firm said there was no drought or plans for a hosepipe ban, it added "everyone can help by seeing how water can be saved around the home and garden as the warm weather continues".

There was a "medium risk" of drought if there was not enough rainfall in the coming months, the firm added.It said it was "working hard behind the scenes to make the very best use of its water resources".

"This includes using its vast interconnected system of treatment works and pipes to move water from one part of the region to another to 'top up' areas that are lower and tackling leaks."United Utilities, which supplies water to about seven million people in the region, said a person used a daily average of about 140 litres, and spending less time in a shower could save 12 litres per minute.