A man who was arrested in a Glasgow hospital after catching COVID-19 is a rape suspect wanted by the United States, a Scottish judge ruled on Friday.
The man is also accused of faking his death to avoid prosecution.
Evidence showed that the 35-year-old man, who goes by Arthur Knight, is Nicholas Rossi, who is wanted by the U.S. authorities, Court Sheriff Norman McFadyen told the Edinburgh Sheriff Court, one of the six sheriff courts in Scotland that hear most of the civil and criminal cases.
McFadyen said he was “ultimately satisfied on the balance of probabilities by the evidence of fingerprint, photographic, and tattoo evidence taken together, supported by the evidence of changes of name, that Mr. Knight is indeed Nicolas Rossi, the person sought for extradition by the United States.”…