Ex-Spandau Ballet singer Ross Wild discovered responsible of rape | EUROtoday
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A former Spandau Ballet frontman has been discovered responsible of raping a girl and trying to rape one other.
Ross Davidson, 37, is dealing with jail after jurors at Wood Green Crown Court heard the Aberdeen-born musical theatre actor, aspiring songwriter and singer carried out the assaults as a result of he felt he may get “sex on demand”.
The singer, who used the stage title Ross Wild, had starred in Queen-based West End musical We Will Rock You, and carried out in 2018 because the singer for Nineteen Eighties favourites Spandau Ballet.
Davidson, of Finchley, north London, had pleaded not responsible to the rape of a girl in London in March 2015, together with the tried rape and sexual assault of one other lady in Thailand in December 2019, saying his actions have been consensual.
On Wednesday, jurors discovered him responsible of all costs after greater than 11 hours of deliberation.
Davidson had earlier pleaded responsible to a cost of voyeurism in December 2019 in opposition to the girl in Thailand after secretly filmed video he had taken of her as she slept was discovered on his cell phone.
Prosecutor Richard Hearnden stated Davidson had been considered “a bit of a sex symbol” however the two ladies say he had “a much darker side that they did not notice, at least at first”.
He had success, musical expertise and was thought-about “charming and charismatic” however “it is because Ross Davidson expects to get sex on demand that he will resort to rape and sexual assault if he is not given what he thinks he deserves”, Mr Hearnden stated.
Davidson, who met the ladies on the Tinder courting app, said that every one intercourse he had was consensual.
He described himself as “sex positive”, telling the court docket this was about “open dialogue, open-mindedness about people’s predilections, just an openness to trying different sexual appetites”.
The rape sufferer informed the jury Davidson attacked her whereas she was asleep in his mattress and recalled feeling “helpless” and “scared to react”.
Before assaulting her Davidson had “mentioned he liked the idea of having sex with a mannequin, a person in a helpless state, someone not moving”.
Jurors additionally heard he put her in a intercourse collar and wrist cuffs for about 20 minutes with out her permission.
This made her “confused” and put her in “a state of shock” however he eliminated them when she requested, she stated.
In court docket Davidson known as all these claims of assault and a intercourse collar an “out-and-out lie.”
Another lady stated she awakened in a lodge bed room in Thailand to search out Davidson making an attempt to have intercourse with out her permission or a condom.
Davidson stated “thanks for being cool about it” when she calmly talked him down from raping her, she recalled.
This tried rape occurred after Davidson and the girl had drunken intercourse the evening earlier than.
The lady went on to stick with him that evening, which she described as “regrettable but fair” earlier than they hung out collectively the next day on a seaside and sightseeing journey.
Detectives tracked her down after discovering Davidson’s cell phone video exhibiting her being fondled whereas loud night breathing, “asleep, still and unresponsive” and “at least half naked” in a Thailand lodge bed room, the prosecution stated.
She had no thought the video existed till the police informed her in 2023.
In her proof the girl strongly dismissed a suggestion by Davidson that she had given him permission to the touch her whereas she was asleep, telling the jury: “Why would I want a man to touch me when I am in a state of unconsciousness?”
In his police interview Davidson described a whirlwind romance with the girl in Thailand the place that they had consensual intercourse and talked about their “kinks and fantasies, very normal fantasises”.
He admitted a voyeurism cost over the video, however had denied sexual assault from the identical incident.
Davidson stated he created the video for “selfish reasons, for sexual gratification” and he “had permission to touch her but not to film”.
Then, getting emotional, he informed the jury: ”I want I had by no means achieved it.”
An extra listening to has been set for February 4 on the identical court docket, when a sentencing date is predicted to be mentioned.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/spandau-ballet-singer-rape-ross-davidson-wood-green-b2909446.html