American Fugitive Nicholas Rossi has been extradited from Scotland to the US following a protracted authorized battle amid heavy sexual assault allegations.
Scottish ministers signed an order in September final yr giving permission for Nicholas Rossi, 36, to be extradited, following a prolonged case within the Scottish courts.
Rossi had claimed he had been the sufferer of mistaken id – telling courts he’s an Irish orphan named Arthur Knight.
However a police officer discovered he was Nicholas Rossi, and the enchantment towards extradition was dismissed in December, eradicating all obstacles in direction of extradition.
A spokesperson for Police Scotland mentioned on Friday, December 5: “We assisted associate businesses with the extradition of a 36-year-old man.”
Rossi is needed within the US for allegedly raping a girl in Utah in 2008 and likewise faces numerous home abuse expenses.
He initially got here to the eye of the authorities after being admitted to the Queen Elizabeth College Hospital in Glasgow with Covid-19 in December 2021.
Rossi was served an Interpol pink discover and a Nationwide Crime Company certificates, a doc Rossi claims by no means to have obtained, whereas he was in hospital the identical month.