A FORMER Spandau Ballet singer has been found guilty of raping a woman and filming himself groping another.
Ross Davidson – known to fans as Ross Wild – he felt he could get “sex on demand” and forced himself on women who did not comply.
The former star of Queen musical We Will Rock You, 37, had become “a bit of a sex symbol” as frontman of small-time band Mercutio.
He also spent a year as the lead singer for 80’s band Spandau Ballet in 2018.
But away from the showbiz world, Davidson had a “darker side” and thought his status gave him the right to have any woman he wanted.
Davidson has now been found guilty of raping a woman in London in 2015 and the attempted rape and sexual assault of another woman in Thailand in 2019.
The verdict comes after he was previously convicted of assaults against three women.
The court heard how Davidson met the rape victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, on dating app Plenty of Fish in 2012.
They are said to have had a brief “fling” before losing touch for two years.
Mr Hearnden said they made arrangements for her to visit him for a weekend at his home in Finchley, North London in March 2015 after exchanging “flirty messages”.
But the woman told police that when she arrived his “manner had changed” to become “more assertive and…agressive.”
Richard Hearnden, prosecuting, said she recalled the Aberdeen-born singer saying to her that he “liked the idea of having sexual intercourse with a ‘model’…sex with a dummy, a mannequin, a doll”.
He added: “He told her that he liked the idea of the other person, the woman, being dead still and not showing any emotion and not reacting to the sexual act at all. It was a fantasy.”
The court heard how the following morning she woke up in the defendant’s bed to find him raping her.
She is said to have managed to “extricate herself” before leaving and never speaking to him again.
The woman reported him to police in 2023 after learning he had been charged with similar offences.
Police found a video of another woman on the Davidson’s phone which was taken on the Thai island of Phuket in December 2019.
The court heard she was “asleep, still and unresponsive” as the fiend could be seen on camera groping her breasts.
Police identified the victim and when they interviewed her, she told them the singer had also attempted to rape her after they met on Tinder while she was travelling.
The pair had what she described as consensual “drunk sex” but when she woke in the morning she said Davidson was attempting to rape her.
She described being “very afraid” and acknowledging that it was “a very dangerous situation to be in”.
Davidson, of Finchley, North London, was today convicted of rape, attempted rape and sexual assault.
In July 2024 he was convicted by a jury of rape, two charges of sexual assault and voyeurism of fourth complainant.
He has been remanded into custody ahead of sentencing.
