BBCA U.S. fugitive who forged his death and fled to Scotland to escape justice was convicted of rape in the United States.
Nicholas Rossi appeared in court under his other name Nicholas Alahverdian, denied all charges.
The case involved an attack in Salt Lake County, but he still faces another trial for alleged rape in Utah County, which is scheduled for September.
The jury of four men and four women took more than eight hours to reach the verdict. Rossi will be sentenced on October 20 and faces five years in prison.
Rossi, who had joked with the legal team, showed no emotion when reading the verdict.
“In this case, we are willing to stand up and we thank the survivors a few years after this attack,” Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill said.
“We thank her for her patience as we worked to bring the defendant back to Salt Lake County so that the trial could be conducted and she could get justice.
“Hand up bravely and bravely, face her attacker and ask him to take responsibility.”
The court received news about Rossi, who was raped in Salt Lake County, called MS.
They initially met online in 2008, started dating and got engaged two weeks later, she said.
She said Rosie’s behavior changed quickly and he began to control, borrow money from her and would not let her drive and criticize her clothes.
The court heard that the woman decided to end the relationship, when Rosie pushed her to his apartment bed and raped her.
The defense claimed that the case was like a “difficult problem in a thrift store” because it lacked fragments and had no complete pictures.
Getty ImagesThey claimed that the woman was upset after losing money on her engagement ring and only talked about the rape allegations after seeing Rossi in the news 13 years later.
The court then heard from Rossi, accused of rape in his apartment in Orem, Utah, who was a witness (called KP) in the current case.
KP said she met Rossi on the social networking site Myspace in August 21, 2008, and they started a brief relationship.
She once told the court that she woke up in Rossi’s apartment and found that he had spent $400 (£296) on the computer using her credit card details without permission.
Rosie said he would pay her back, but after the relationship ended, he admitted he had no money.
Then he started having sex with himself, and when she tried to leave, Rossi pulled down her clothes, nailed her to the sofa or other furniture, and raped her again.
Rossi’s trial on alleged rape of KP is scheduled to begin in Utah next month and is expected to last for two weeks.
Who is Nicholas Rossi?
Nicholas Rossi was born in 1987 in Nicholas Alahverdian – Rossi is the name of his stepfather.
In an investigation into credit card fraud, he forged his death in 2020 and fled the United States to try to escape justice.
Authorities suspect he is somewhere in the UK.
That same year, Rossi married his wife Miranda in Bristol.
He attracted attention from the British media when he was arrested in December 2021 in the Kuvid ward at a Glasgow hospital.
Staff have realized his explicit and unique tattoos from Interpol want to notify – but Rosie claims he was the victim of a wrong identity, his name is Arthur Knight, an Irish orphan who has never been to the United States.
PA MediaThe legal process began, but was delayed mainly due to Rosie’s antics.
He appeared in a series of courtrooms in a wheelchair in a three-piece suit and oxygen mask, maintaining his request for false identity.
Rossi insisted that he was given a unique tattoo while unconscious at a Glasgow hospital in an attempt to frame him.
When the reporter asked, he was unable to provide a birth certificate or passport.
He fired several lawyers before the sheriff ruled that he was Nicholas Rossi, whose identity was wrongly claimed to be “unbelievable” and fantasy.
The Scottish Attorney General signed an order to grant Rosie extradition to the United States in September 2023 and returned to the United States in January 2024 after losing its final appeal.
Rosie admitted for the first time that he and the alias Arthur Knight were the same person at the bail hearing in Salt Lake City last October.
He denied fleeing to Britain to evade arrest, claiming that he had left the country, and later used an alias to evade threats.
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