Ross Davidson: everything we know so far

Former Spandau Ballet frontman Ross Davidson has been jailed for 14 years for a series of rapes and sexual assaults. Ross Davidson has emerged this Friday as one of the stories drawing attention in Ireland.

Key facts

• Former Spandau Ballet frontman Ross Davidson has been jailed for 14 years for a series of rapes and sexual assaults.
• Davidson, 38, was convicted across two trials of two counts of rape, an attempted rape, three sexual assaults, and two charges of voyeurism, in offences committed against six women between August 2013 and December 2019.
• He had success, musical talent, and was considered "charming and charismatic", but "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 said.
• The singer, 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 lead singer for 1980s favourites Spandau Ballet.
• Davidson had earlier pleaded guilty to a charge of voyeurism in December 2019 against the same woman in Thailand, after a video he had taken of her as she slept was found on his mobile phone.

What we know

Going deeper, Davidson, 38, was convicted across two trials of two counts of rape, an attempted rape, three sexual assaults, and two charges of voyeurism, in offences committed against six women between August 2013 and December 2019.

On the substance, He had success, musical talent, and was considered "charming and charismatic", but "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 said.

Beyond the headlines, the singer, 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 lead singer for 1980s favourites Spandau Ballet.

More precisely, Davidson had earlier pleaded guilty to a charge of voyeurism in December 2019 against the same woman in Thailand, after a video he had taken of her as she slept was found on his mobile phone.

It is worth noting that Another woman who was 16 when her involvement with Davidson became "toxic" said he "took away my youth, innocence, and right to freedom".

By the numbers

At this stage, At Wood Green Crown Court on Thursday, Judge John Dodd KC, the Recorder of Haringey, said: "For a period of six years between 2013 to 2019 and at a time when your stage and musical career was fast developing, and you were seen by many as charismatic, you were also behaving to women in a wholly disgraceful manner.

On a related note, the Aberdeen-born musical theatre actor, aspiring songwriter, and singer, from Finchley, north London, was convicted in July 2024 after his first trial of rape, two counts of sexual assault, and voyeurism, involving offences against four women.

Going deeper, At the second trial last January, a jury convicted him of raping a woman in London in March 2015 and the attempted rape and sexual assault of another woman in Thailand in December 2019.

On the substance, the woman added: "Throughout April 2023, I was consumed with fear, shame, and anger.

The wider context

On a related note, the judge told Davidson he had an "adventurous attitude to matters sexually" and treated the women, some of whom cared or loved him, "without respect".

Going deeper, Davidson filmed himself raping one woman and some of the sexual assault charges, which were based on videos recovered from his phone, showed "strikingly similar" incidents where he touched sleeping women, the prosecution said.

On the substance, Davidson sat reading a book in the dock as statements detailing the ongoing trauma suffered by the victims were heard in court.

Beyond the headlines, Mr Hearnden had said Davidson had been thought of as "a bit of a sex symbol", but the two women say he had "a much darker side that they did not notice, at least at first".

More precisely, Davidson, who met the women on the Tinder dating app, claimed at trial that all sexual contact had been consensual.

The bottom line

• The singer, 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 lead singer for 1980s favourites Spandau Ballet.
• The judge told Davidson he had an "adventurous attitude to matters sexually" and treated the women, some of whom cared or loved him, "without respect".
• The woman whose rape Davidson filmed condemned his actions as "unforgivable" and stated: "I was traumatised.
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