The previous Spandau Ballet singer Ross Davidson has been discovered responsible of raping a lady in 2015.
He has additionally been discovered responsible of the tried rape and sexual assault of one other girl in Thailand in 2019.
Davidson, 37, of Finchley, north London, was on trial at Wooden Inexperienced Crown Courtroom and is now going through jail, the Met Police mentioned.
He had denied the fees of rape, tried rape and sexual assault, however was discovered responsible of all three after over 11 hours of deliberation from the jury.
The rape sufferer informed the jury that she wakened in Davidson’s mattress as he was assaulting her, saying she felt ‘helpless’ and ‘scared to react’.
The girl informed the courtroom that he had informed her he wished to have intercourse with a ‘nonetheless, lifeless, unresponsive’ particular person.
She informed Wooden Inexperienced Crown Courtroom that they’d mentioned his fantasy of getting ‘intercourse with a model’ after they met on a courting app.
The girl, who can’t be named for authorized causes, informed the courtroom: ‘[He] talked about he preferred the thought of getting intercourse with a model, an individual in a helpless state, somebody not shifting.’
This dialog was mentioned to have occurred earlier than the rape, with the sufferer telling the jury that she had initially believed that when he mentioned mannequin, he meant an ‘enticing particular person’, versus an inanimate object.
The singer accused the girl in entrance of the courtroom of getting fabricated the trade after watching a sequence in regards to the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.
Throughout his police interview for the separate offence in Thailand, Davidson claimed he had consensual intercourse with a vacationer he met on Tinder in 2019, labelling the girl’s accusation that he tried to rape her ‘completely false’.
The girl, who additionally can’t be named for authorized causes, says she woke as much as discover Davidson attempting to have intercourse along with her in a resort with out her permission or a condom.
Prosecutor Richard Hearnden mentioned the 2 accusers discovered Davidson had ‘a a lot darker facet that they didn’t discover, no less than at first.’
Davidson beforehand pleaded responsible to voyeurism in opposition to the girl in Thailand, after he recorded her whereas she was sleeping in 2019.
Davidson carried out below the stage identify Ross Wild with the pop band Spandau Ballet, which he was in between 2017 and 2019. He additionally starred within the Queen-themed West Finish musical We Will Rock You.
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