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Jurors at Wood Green Crown Court found Davidson guilty (Alamy\/PA)<\/p>\nA former Spandau Ballet frontman is facing jail after being found guilty of raping a woman and attempting to rape another.<\/p>\n
Ross Davidson, 37, who used the stage name Ross Wild, had starred in Queen-based West End musical We Will Rock You, and performed in 2018 as the singer for 1980s favourites Spandau Ballet.<\/p>\n
Jurors at Wood Green Crown Court heard the Aberdeen-born musical theatre actor, aspiring songwriter and singer carried out the assaults because he felt he could get \u201csex on demand\u201d.<\/p>\n
Davidson, of Finchley, north London, had pleaded not guilty to the rape of a woman in\u00a0London in March 2015, along with the attempted rape and sexual assault of another woman in Thailand in December 2019, saying his actions were consensual.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, jurors found him guilty of all charges after more than 11 hours of deliberation.<\/p>\n
Jurors at Wood Green Crown Court found Davidson guilty (Alamy\/PA)<\/p>\n
The court heard Davidson had been found guilty of rape, two counts of sexual assault and voyeurism at a previous trial.<\/p>\n
These offences were against four different women.<\/p>\n
Davidson had earlier pleaded guilty to a charge of voyeurism in December 2019 against the woman in Thailand after secretly filmed video he had taken of her as she slept was found on his mobile phone.<\/p>\n
Prosecutor Richard Hearnden said Davidson had been thought of as \u201ca bit of a sex symbol\u201d but the two women say he had \u201ca much darker side that they did not notice, at least at first\u201d.<\/p>\n
He had success, musical talent and was considered \u201ccharming and charismatic\u201d but \u201cit 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\u201d, Mr Hearnden said.<\/p>\n
Davidson, who met the women on the Tinder dating app, stated that all sex he had was consensual.<\/p>\n
He described himself as \u201csex positive\u201d, telling the court this was about \u201copen dialogue, open-mindedness about people\u2019s predilections, just an openness to trying different sexual appetites\u201d.<\/p>\n
This could include bondage, restraint, group sex, and he had \u201conce or twice\u201d attended a sex party.<\/p>\n
The rape victim told the jury Davidson attacked her while she was asleep in his bed and recalled feeling \u201chelpless\u201d and \u201cscared to react\u201d.<\/p>\n
Before assaulting her Davidson had \u201cmentioned he liked the idea of having sex with a mannequin, a person in a helpless state, someone not moving\u201d.<\/p>\n
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Davidson was found guilty of all charges after more than 11 hours of deliberation (Metropolitan Police\/PA)<\/p>\n
Jurors also heard he put her in a sex collar and wrist cuffs for about 20 minutes without her permission.<\/p>\n
This made her \u201cconfused\u201d and put her in \u201ca state of shock\u201d but he removed them when she asked, she said.<\/p>\n
In court Davidson called all these claims of assault and a sex collar an \u201cout-and-out lie.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another woman said she woke up in a hotel bedroom in Thailand to find Davidson trying to have sex without her permission or a condom.<\/p>\n
Davidson said \u201cthanks for being cool about it\u201d when she calmly talked him down from raping her, she recalled.<\/p>\n
This attempted rape happened after Davidson and the woman had drunken sex the night before.<\/p>\n
The woman went on to stay with him that night, which she described as \u201cregrettable but fair\u201d before they spent time together the following day on a beach and sightseeing trip.<\/p>\n
Detectives tracked her down after finding Davidson\u2019s mobile phone video showing her being fondled while snoring, \u201casleep, still and unresponsive\u201d and \u201cat least half naked\u201d in a Thailand hotel bedroom, the prosecution said.<\/p>\n
She had no idea the video existed until the police told her in 2023.<\/p>\n
In her evidence the woman strongly dismissed a suggestion by Davidson that she had given him permission to touch her while she was asleep, telling the jury: \u201cWhy would I want a man to touch me when I am in a state of unconsciousness?\u201d<\/p>\n
Davidson is a prolific offender who carried out cowardly and opportunistic assaults against his victims<\/p>\n
Dc Kamila Kedadrova, Metropolitan Police<\/p>\n
In his police interview Davidson described a whirlwind romance with the woman in Thailand where they had consensual sex and talked about their \u201ckinks and fantasies, very normal fantasises\u201d.<\/p>\n
He admitted a voyeurism charge over the video, but had denied sexual assault from the same incident.<\/p>\n
Davidson said he created the video for \u201cselfish reasons, for sexual gratification\u201d and he \u201chad permission to touch her but not to film\u201d.<\/p>\n
Then, getting emotional, he told the jury: \u201cI wish I had never done it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police said an investigation into Davidson began in 2019 and that, following his arrest, officers found numerous videos of him on his devices raping and sexually assaulting victims.<\/p>\n
Detective Constable Kamila Kedadrova, who was part of investigation team, said: \u201cDavidson is a prolific offender who carried out cowardly and opportunistic assaults against his victims.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur dedicated team of officers have worked with determination and care to secure the evidence which has proved essential in achieving today\u2019s result.<\/p>\n
\u201cI also commend the victims for their courage and support for the investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Addressing jurors, Judge John Dodd KC thanked them for their work during the case, adding: \u201cI expect you have all felt rather sad about the people involved.\u201d<\/p>\n
A further hearing has been set for February 4 at the same court, when a sentencing date is expected to be discussed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Spandau Ballet frontman is facing jail after being found guilty of raping a woman and attempting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-268956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}