Former Spandau Ballet singer jailed for 14 years for multiple rapes and sexual assaults

Musician Ross Davidson, a former singer for Spandau Ballet, has been jailed for 14 years for multiple 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. The singer, who used the stage name Ross William Wild, had starred in the West End musical We Will Rock You. He also performed in 2018 as the lead singer for Spandau Ballet. During his trial, Davidson claimed he had consent from all the women, but he was found guilty on all charges. At Wood Green crown court on Thursday, Judge John Dodd KC said he had an “adventurous attitude to matters sexually” and treated the women, some of whom cared for or loved him, “without respect”. Each of his six victims gave evidence during the trial “vividly and without exaggeration” to state how he had “abused” their trust, the judge said. In his first trial in July 2024, Davidson was convicted of rape, two counts of sexual assault and voyeurism involving offences against four women. At the second trial last January a jury convicted him of raping a woman in London in March 2015, and of the attempted rape and sexual assault of another woman in Thailand in December 2019. …