![]() ![]() Former foster mom in same state accused Alahverdian of $200,000 scam which saw him allegedly take out fake credit cards and loans in her husband's nameįebruary 2020 : Fakes his own death of lymphoma, with unnamed 'widow' claiming Alahverdian had been buried at sea. In September 2008, he allegedly raped an ex-girlfriend in Orem, Utah - the allegation that led to his arrest in December 2021.Ģ017 : Fraud in Ohio. Accused of separate attack which allegedly saw him kidnap and sexually assault a womanĭate unknown : Accused of similar abduction and sexual assault attempt in MassachusettsĢ008 : Convicted of sexual assault in Ohio after an 'encounter' with a fellow student at Sinclair Community College in Dayton. 'On Friday, October 28 the US Embassy in London issued a diplomatic notice for supplementary extradition requests, requesting the extradition of the person.ĭate unknown : Failure to register as a sex offender in Rhode Island. Rossi reportedly told US media in December 2019 that he had late-stage non-Hodgkin lymphoma and had weeks to live.Īn obituary dedicated to him appeared online, and several outlets reported that he had died in February 2020.Īfter his arrest US authorities issued additional extradition requests - one related to another allegation of rape and another to an allegation of sexual assault.Īdvocate depute Paul Harvey said at the time: 'As a result of the extradition process I’m told that two other women in Utah have come forward with allegations of sexual offences. He was then charged with acting aggressively towards a consultant and senior nurse at Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital. The hearings culminated in an extraordinary identification case where he insisted his fingerprints had been meddled with and that he had been tattooed while unconscious in hospital in order to resemble Rossi. Pictured is his undated mugshot from the sex offenders' registryĪ stream of preliminary hearings then took place, which saw Rossi sack at least six lawyers and claim to have been tortured in prison. ![]() The US now seeks to extradite him to face a number of sexual assault charges, amid them an accusation he raped a 21-year-old woman in Utah in 2008. Medical staff and police were able to identify him by comparing his tattoos with pictures of Rossi on an Interpol red notice. That is the condition he claims now necessitates his use of an oxygen tank. Rossi was first arrested in October, 2021, after checking himself in to a hospital in Glasgow with a serious COVID infection. When asked if he is putting on a show, he said: 'That is a low blow, that is a very low blow.' ![]() 'Exactly, exactly,' he told the interviewer. In a desperate attempt to then prove he is unable to walk, Rossi tried to stand up before dramatically falling back into his chair as his wife stabilized him. Speaking in what sounded like an English accent, he continued: 'And we'd like privacy and I would like to go back to being a normal husband, but I can't because I can't breathe, I can't walk.' Rossi appeared beside his British wife, Miranda Knight, and told Dateline: 'We were once a normal family, but thanks to the media our lives have been interrupted.' The US now seeks to extradite him to face a number of sexual assault charges, amid them an accusation he raped a 21-year-old woman in Utah in 2008. They say he faked his death in 2017 and fled to Scotland.ĭuring the interview with Dateline, Rossi seemed determined to continue with the deception, and grew so irate he was unable to see out of his small, round-framed glasses. On Thursday Alahverdian failed to appear for a hearing in Edinburgh after an 'altercation', a court was told. He was seen leaving Edinburgh Sheriff's Court in a wheelchair and the extradition hearing postponed until a later date. Rossi was interviewed in April 2022 - seven months before a ruling in which a Scottish judge rubbished his claims, and confirmed he is in fact the US-born fugitive. He is currently being held in a Scotland jail as he awaits extradition proceedings. I do not know how to make this clearer,' he told NBC in a bizarre accent, muffled by an oxygen mask over his mouth and nose. Nicholas Alahverdian - aka Nicholas Rossi, 35 - also theatrically tried standing to prove that was was unable to walk during a Dateline interview with Andrea Canning that will be screened Friday at 9pm ET. A Rhode Island fugitive who faked his own death and fled to Scotland steamed his glasses up with rage while angrily insisting he is a British man called Arthur Knight.
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