Former frontman of Spandau Ballet, Ross Davidson, advised a girl ‘thanks for being cool about it’ when she calmly talked him down from raping her, a court docket has heard.
The girl, who can’t be named for authorized causes, advised Wooden Inexperienced Crown Court docket that she wakened in a lodge room in Thailand to seek out Ross Davidson trying to have intercourse together with her with out her consent and with no condom.
She mentioned the pair had met solely just lately on Tinder.
Describing herself as ‘naive’ and ‘very trusting,’ the vacationer mentioned she had not thought somebody would ‘mess with me’ whereas she was asleep.
Jurors heard that the pair had drunk alcohol and had consensual intercourse the evening earlier than, however that she believed there was a ‘belief level the place you belief that individuals will respect your boundaries.’
Davidson, 37, of Finchley, north London, is on trial accused of rape, tried rape and sexual assault. He denies all costs.
The girl advised police it was daylight when she woke, feeling hungover, and instantly realised she was in a ‘harmful scenario.’
She mentioned Davidson was ‘not carrying a condom and appeared shocked she wakened,’ and that she requested him, ‘what are you doing?’
She mentioned his eyes have been ‘bizarre and I didn’t know what was going to occur’, prompting her to talk calmly ‘to minimize it (the scenario) in order that he didn’t attempt to harm me.’
In her police video interview, the lady recalled: ‘I keep in mind him (Davidson) saying thanks for being cool about it.’
Recalling the second she woke, she mentioned: ‘He froze however he had this scary look on his face.
‘I believed there was a risk he would possibly hit me, however I have no idea if that was simply my notion, however all of those unseen potentialities of being bodily harmed in varied methods (got here to me).
‘I believed “oh my God,” I would die. I didn’t know what he was able to.’
She advised officers she mentioned he needed to ask for consent and identified that he was not carrying a condom, maintaining her tone intentionally calm. Davidson was ‘very tense’ at first, she mentioned, however turned ‘very calm’ as she reassured him she was not ‘going to freak out.’
The court docket additionally heard proof about video footage discovered on Davidson’s cell phone.
Prosecutors mentioned detectives traced the lady after discovering footage displaying her mendacity down ‘a minimum of half bare’ in a lodge room in Phuket, Thailand, the place she is allegedly fondled whereas ‘asleep, nonetheless and unresponsive.’
The girl mentioned she was unaware the footage existed till police knowledgeable her.
She described the invention as ‘disembodying to know that was taken, it feels disempowering,’ including it brought about a ‘scary’ and ‘horrible feeling’ and made her worry it might have been uploaded to a pornography website. Police later advised her the video appeared to exist solely on Davidson’s telephone.
She advised officers: ‘How are you going to consent in case you are asleep?’ and ‘Additionally, why would I need this unusual man to sexually assault me in my sleep?’ She added: ‘there isn’t any method that was helpful to me or a pleasure.’
Davidson, who beforehand carried out underneath the stage title Ross Wild, appeared within the West Finish musical We Will Rock You and toured in 2018 because the lead singer of Spandau Ballet.
He has pleaded not responsible to the alleged rape of a girl in London in March 2015, and in addition denies the tried rape and sexual assault of one other girl in Thailand in December 2019.
Jurors have been advised he has pleaded responsible to a cost of voyeurism regarding the identical Thailand incident.
Defence counsel Charlotte Newell KC has advised the court docket that Davidson denies raping, trying to rape, or sexually assaulting both girl. She mentioned: ‘He’ll say there was no intercourse in any respect together with her in London as he was not sexually drawn to her – and that perhaps disappointing or upsetting – in actuality there was no spark for him.’
Addressing the Thailand allegations, Ms Newell mentioned Davidson denies trying to rape the lady whereas she was asleep and maintains the sexual touching was consensual, claiming she was pretending to be asleep.
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