Ross Davidson : ce qu'il faut savoir

Former Spandau Ballet frontman Ross Davidson has been jailed for 14 years for a series of rapes and sexual assaults. Ross Davidson s'impose comme l'un des sujets qui mobilisent l'attention en Ireland ce jeudi.

Les faits

• 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.

L'essentiel

Dans le détail, 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.

Sur le fond, 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.

Concrètement, 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.

Au-delà de ce constat, 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.

Reste à préciser que Another woman who was 16 when her involvement with Davidson became "toxic" said he "took away my youth, innocence, and right to freedom".

Les chiffres

À noter par ailleurs : 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.

Plus précisément, 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.

Dans la foulée, 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.

À ce stade, the woman added: "Throughout April 2023, I was consumed with fear, shame, and anger.

Le contexte

Reste à préciser que 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".

À noter par ailleurs : 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.

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

Dans la foulée, 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".

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

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À retenir

• 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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