A former Spandau Ballet frontman has denied attempting to rape a girl in Thailand, a jury has heard.
In his police interview, Ross Davidson stated he had solely had consensual intercourse with a vacationer he met on Tinder in Thailand in 2019, and that any tried rape by her is “completely false.”
Davidson, 37, from Finchley, north London, is on trial at Wooden Inexperienced Crown Court docket the place he has denied expenses of rape, tried rape and sexual assault.
The girl, who can’t be named for authorized causes, says she woke as much as discover Davidson attempting to have intercourse along with her in a lodge with out her consent or a condom.
Davidson, who used the stage title Ross Wild, starred within the Queen-based West Finish musical We Will Rock You and in 2018 appeared as lead singer of ’80s favourite Spandau Ballet.
The Aberdeen-born musical theater actor, aspiring songwriter and singer is alleged to have raped a girl and filmed himself groping one other.
In his police interview, Davidson described a whirlwind romance with the girl in Thailand, the place they’d consensual intercourse and talked about their “twists and fantasies, very regular fantasies”, the jury heard.
He described the few days he spent along with her as full of intercourse and medicines, calling it “simply unfastened, enjoyable and free; everybody was tremendous joyful, nothing unhealthy, I cared about this lady’.
The jury heard they bought very drunk and had intercourse earlier than spending time collectively on sightseeing and a seashore journey over the following few days.
The alleged tried rape occurred after Davidson and the girl had drunken intercourse the night time earlier than, in line with the lawsuit.
Davidson informed detectives: “Why, if I had accomplished one thing so heinous, would somebody include me the following day and tour the entire space?”
He stated she “informed me she was in love with me” and added: “it wasn’t reciprocated.”
Davidson additionally informed investigators, “I am positive an tried rape is a traumatic expertise. How on earth would you spend time with somebody intimately of their lodge if somebody had tried to rape you?’
He described the girl as “stunning” and “clever” and stated he needed to exit to restock condoms throughout an evening through which they’d intercourse a number of occasions.
Davidson stated: ‘It was a sex-fueled night, fully consensual, and every thing was nice.’
On the day of the alleged rape, the girl woke him up the following morning as a result of she needed to choose up her issues from her hostel forward of their outing, Davidson stated.
The courtroom heard he flatly denied strategies he had tried to have intercourse along with her with out her consent, telling detectives this had ‘completely’ not occurred.
Giving proof, the girl informed the jury that Davidson informed her, “Thanks for being cool about it,” as she calmly persuaded him to rape her.
In his interview, Davidson stated, “It is a fictional second; this by no means occurred’.
He stated what occurred occurred after they’d “a mutual dialogue about kink.”
Davidson stated it was ‘a number of intercourse, a number of alcohol and many enjoyable – it is that easy, and that is what occurs whenever you’re on vacation when there is no sq.’.
There have been photographs and “messages of adoration for one another” from their time collectively, he informed investigators.
Detectives tracked down the vacationer after discovering video footage of her on Davidson’s mobile phone, exhibiting her mendacity “no less than semi-naked” in a lodge room in Phuket, Thailand, prosecutors stated.
She is caressed whereas she snores, ‘asleep, silent and unresponsive’, the jury was informed.
The girl had no concept the video existed till police informed her in 2023.
Davidson has pleaded not responsible to the tried rape and sexual assault of the girl in Thailand in December 2019.
The jury has been informed he additionally pleaded responsible to a voyeurism cost in opposition to the identical girl in December 2019.
Davidson has additionally denied raping a girl in London in March 2015.
The method continues.
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