Rape suspect Nicholas Rossi has been extradited from Scotland to America after a long-running authorized battle.
It comes after he was dominated to be a person needed in Utah over the alleged rape of a girl in 2008.
US officers say he’s a fugitive who faked his personal demise – even organising his personal memorial service – earlier than fleeing to the UK.
He claimed to be a sufferer of mistaken id and stated he was an Irish orphan named Arthur Knight who had by no means been to America.
However, it emerged he had modified his identify 4 instances in three years and concocted a lot of tales to cover from justice, stated Sky’s Scotland correspondent Connor Gillies.
Rossi first got here to the eye of authorities after he grew to become unwell with COVID and was taken to Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in December 2021.
A yr later, Edinburgh Sheriff Court dominated his tattoos and fingerprints matched these of Rossi – as featured on a world Interpol needed discover.
Rossi instructed that they had been inked on him by a rogue NHS worker when he was unconscious in hospital.
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The case performed out over a lot of years in Scottish courts, with Rossi dismissing his authorized groups and representing himself.
A Police Scotland spokeswoman stated on Friday: “We assisted partner agencies with the extradition of a 36-year-old man.”
It comes after enchantment judges final month quashed Rossi’s enchantment.
Gillies stated the extradition brings “an end to a huge game of cat and mouse he played with the legal system”.
“The time is up, the game is up,” stated Sky’s correspondent.
Source: information.sky.com”