Man accused of coercing wife into sex with 120 men goes on trial in Sweden

The 61-year-old denies threatening physical violence and plying his wife with drugs to force her into having sex with strangers.

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The man is alleged to have used the remoteness of their farm near Kramfors in northern Sweden, as well as surveillance cameras and drugs, to force her to perform sexual acts with men he had found online.

He denies wrongdoing and alleges the encounters were consensual - all he had done was help organise them.

The trial has already drawn international attention and is being compared by some to that of Frenchman Dominique Pelicot, who was found to have drugged and let other men rape his then-wife Gisèle over a period of nine years.

The trial began in Härnösand, a small town on Sweden's eastern coast, on Friday, with the defendant reportedly remaining completely still as the charges against him were read out.