Former Spandau Ballet singer Ross William Wild cries in court for rape and sexual assault charges

Ross William Wild faces fees of rape and sexual assault (Image: Getty)

Former Spandau Ballet singer Ross William Wild has appeared in court docket to faces fees of rape and sexual assault. 

Wild, 34, is accused of filming himself abusing six sleeping girls and is fees with raping a seventh girl, who he's additionally alleged to have blackmailed and revealed an specific photograph of. 

The singer, who appeared at Carlisle Magistrates’ Courtroom underneath his actual title of Ross Davidson, is accused of 17 offences occurring between 2013 and 2018. 

He appeared within the dock in a plain black T-shirt flanked by two safety employees as he broke down in tears. 

Wild was arrested at his dad and mom’ dwelling in Aberdeen on Friday after the Crown Prosecution Service authorised police to cost him earlier this week.

Though no formal plea was entered, his lawyer, Chris Toms stated of the cost, by way of The Solar: ‘That's firmly denied. He desires his day in court docket.’

He was a part of Spandau Ballet between 2018 and 2020 (Image: Brian Rasic/WireImage)

The Met Police’s Specialist Crime command unit had seized a cell phone which allegedly featured photographs of sleeping girls being molested. 

4 of the alleged assaults are claimed to have taken place between October 2013 and December 2017 at Wild’s North London dwelling, with one other allegedly occurring at a lodge in Shrewsbury in June 2017. 

Wild is charged with six counts of sexual assault and 6 counts of voyeurism, with the final incident alleged to have occurred in Cannes, France whereas Wild was attending the movie competition in Might 2018. 

Wild was sacked by the band reside on tv (Image: Jack Dredd/REX/Shutterstock)

He's additionally accused of rape in 2013 and blackmailing and disclosing a non-public sexual photograph of the identical girl in 2017 with intent to trigger her misery, in addition to inflicting prison injury to her property.

Wild can also be charged with possessing an excessive pornographic picture that includes a non-consensual intercourse act.

The singer had joined Spandau Ballet in 2018 to switch Tony Hadley because the band’s lead singer after he performed Elvis Presley within the West Finish musical Million Greenback Quartet alongside bassist Martin Kemp. 

His tenure with Spandau Ballet was short-lived as they sacked him reside on ITV’s This Morning two years later, the humiliation of which he later claimed led him to attempt to take his personal life. 

Wild has been held in custody and is because of seem at London’s Wooden Inexperienced Crown Courtroom on July 22.