An American who fled to the UK to escape US rape charges will be transferred from Scotland to England for questioning in another rape case, police said on Monday (November 28th). British.
Nicholas Rossi, 35, was arrested in October 2021 when he had Covid-19 and went to a hospital in Glasgow.
Accusations of several rapes
He had claimed to be Arthur Knight but police and caregivers identified him as Nicholas Rossi – a man wanted in the US in connection with the rape of a woman in Utah and others sexual assault- because his tattoos matched the description from Interpol.
He will now be transferred from Scotland to England for questioning over another alleged rape in Chelmsford, northeast London, police said in a statement on Monday. “We are aware of a Scottish court ruling regarding a man arrested there“, said the police in a press release.
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“We are now in contact with the Scottish authorities to facilitate the questioning of this man on a charge of rape in Chelmsford in April 2012“, is it added. In mid-November, an Edinburgh court officially identified the arrested man as Nicholas Rossi, ruling “improbable and fanciful» the explanations of the accused.
Threatened with extradition
Nichola Rossi claimed for months to be called Arthur Knight and to be an orphan born in Ireland. He formally denied being Nicholas Rossi, going so far as to claim that the tattoos had been done to him without his knowledge while he was unconscious in hospital.
Threatened with extradition, he also said that his fingerprints, taken at the hospital, had been exchanged with those of Rossi in order to pass him off as the wanted man.
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