The 55-year-old former X Factor contestant Philip Blackwell was yesterday produced in the Court in Leamington in England, where he was charged with numerous rapes and sexual assaults in the course of the 1990s. It is quite specific about the three I completed rapes, attempts at rape and a sexual assault. There are five female victims in the case.
Philip Blackwell spoke only very briefly in connection with the 20-minute hearing in court, when he confirmed his name, his age and his british nationality. Blackwell was subsequently remanded in custody and shall be produced at the court again on 24. February.
It writes multiple media including the BBC Cornwall Live and Mirror
The 55-year-old Philip Blackwell was 12 years ago, in 2008, a familiar face in England in a very short time. He took part in a audition for the popular program the X Factor, where he drew headlines in the media due to its extremely strange version of the band Spandau ballet’s track ‘Gold’. Here he namely the final note of the number in the whole 30 seconds. The three judges Simon Cowell, Cheryl Cole and Louis Walsh, however, was in no way excited for Philip Blackwells bizarre number. He was voted out with the same.
Philip Blackwell was charged with several rapes and sexual assaults committed in the late 1990s. Ritzau Scanpix)
In connection with his X Factor performance, explained Philip Blackwell to the judges, he hoped that in the future he would make several platinum-selling records throughout the world. He also boasted that no one on the british music charts at the time were better than him. But despite his incredible self-confidence the smoke, the man with the big ego directly out of the program.
A police spokesman in Warwichshire has stated the following:
‘In connection with a cooperation between the police in Warwichshire and the police in the West Midlands, we have charged a man for several rapes and other sexual assaults, which took place around the cities of Birmingham and Nuneaton in the late 1990s.’
