During his conviction of a single charge of rape and two of sexual assault during a six-week trial, a judge today labelled Mercutio singer Ross William Wild as a “manipulative and sadistic” sexual predator. Also convicted guilty of a single charge of voyeurism against a fourth woman, the former Spandau Ballet leader was detained in custody ahead of sentence next month.
On other charges, including controlling and coercive behaviour as well as another sexual assault allegation, Ross William Wild Mercutio Rapist was found not guilty.
Arrested at his parent’s house in June 2022, Wild was accused of video himself mistreating six sleeping women and charged with raping a seventh lady, whom he was also claimed to have blackmailed. The allegations addressed seventeen offences that took place between 2013 and 2018.
The Specialist Crime command team of the Met Police grabbed a mobile phone at the arrest that purportedly showed photographs of molested sleeping ladies. He was sent back into detention on remand.
Ross William Wild was charged six times with voyeurism and six times with sexual assault. Apart from criminal damage to her property, there was an allegation of rape in 2013 and blackmailing and revealing a private sexual picture of the same woman in 2017 to cause her misery.
The jury at Wood Green Crown Court heard allegations during a six-week trial that he harboured a “darker” and “sinister” side, fantasising about having sex with women while they were asleep.
Ross William Wild reportedly told one woman he was accused of raping that he enjoyed the concept of having sex with a mannequin or doll. One woman, the court was informed, received treatment akin to that of a “sexual slave.”
Another woman told police she had been uninformed he had photographed himself grabbing her breasts, according to prosecutor Richard Hearnden to the court. If these events are accurate, Hearnden added that the defendant was a thoroughly nasty and manipulative person. She was some sexually enslaved person being exploited. Five or six times a night, he wanted to have sex. He compelled her to have sex with him when she protested it was too much.
Ross William Wild, who had refuted the charges, said that he and the relevant women had a consensual relationship. In addition, he refuted three accusations of rape, three counts of sexual assault, one count of voyeurism, one count of intimidation, and one count of controlling behaviour.
After an argument at his Finchley, north London, flat, Ross William Wild videotaped himself raping one of the five women on October 1, 2013. Before he assaulted her, she told the court Davidson was hostile, agitated, pacing the bedroom, calling her a “slag” and a “whore.”
Hearnden asked during the trial, “Did he touch you at all?”
Indeed, he started to touch me. She remarked. “He touched me after invading my personal space.”
What was in her thoughts? The prosecutor asked. She answered, “What is going on? We were disagreeing, and I was crying. This is not the moment to be this near to someone, much alone, starting something. Suddenly, he calmed down and told me this was what I wanted. I am due something like this.
She claimed that Ross William Wild next shoved her back onto the bed and sexually assaulted her. Jurors heard him to be strong and forceful. “I asked what you were working on. Stop and get away from me. I was crying all the time.
I asked why I did not report it immediately, and the woman said, “I did not believe it happened.” I wanted not to believe it. It came naturally. It grew to seem like something I deserved.
Hearnden enquired as to whether Ross William Wild and she had discussed it. “He avoided talking to me about it,” she added. Years later, I brought it up, and he answered, “No, I don’t remember that.”
Ross William Wild said to the police, “Everything was consensual between him and the women concerned and played up that he was unconventional in his sexual tastes.”
Ross William Wild told the court he recorded himself gently caressing ladies to “spice things up.” He claimed to have been “experimental” in his sex life but acknowledged he had not removed recordings as instructed.
Ross William Wild attended court under Ross William Davidson, his birth name. Previously well-known for appearing in the West End musical We Will Rock You, he joined the pop ensemble Spandau Ballet as lead vocalist.
After over 12 hours, the majority guilty ruling came about. Wild was absolved of an allegation of controlling and coercive behaviour connected to the fourth complainant. The judge told Ross William Wild he had been found guilty of “some grave matters.”
On September 6, 2024, he will return to court for sentencing.
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