US EditionUS man arrested in Scotland and convicted of Utah rape gets at least 5 years in prison
Nicholas Rossi was sentenced to a minimum of five years after a decade-long investigation cleared a backlog of rape kits in Utah, with further sentencing pending in November.
- District Judge Barry Lawrence sentenced Nicholas Rossi to no less than five years and up to life at the Utah State Correctional Facility, beginning immediately on Monday.
- Hospital staff in Scotland recognized Nicholas Rossi's tattoos from an Interpol notice, leading to his arrest and extradition to Utah in January 2024.
- Rossi maintained his innocence before sentencing Monday, and the judge noted the Board of Pardons and Parole will decide his release under Utah's indeterminate sentencing.
- Clearing a DNA backlog led Utah authorities to identify Rossi, who used at least a dozen aliases to evade capture for more than a decade after the 2008 attacks.
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Nicholas Rossi, who claimed to be Irish orphan and fled to Scotland to avoid US rape charges, jailed for at least five years
A man who fled from the United States to Scotland after he appeared to fake his own death to avoid rape charges, has been sentenced to at least five years in prison.
US man arrested in Scotland and convicted of Utah rape gets at least 5 years in prison
A Utah judge on Monday sentenced a man who appeared to fake his death and flee the United States to avoid arrest on rape charges to anywhere from five years to life in prison.
Nicholas Rossi gets 5-to-life after faking his death to evade rape charges
Nicholas Rossi, who appeared to have faked his own death and fled to Scotland while facing two rape allegations, will serve at least five years in a Utah state prison. That could become a life sentence for the 38-year-old from New Hampshire who still faces sentencing on a second rape charge following convictions in August and September. He was charged with attacking two women in northern Utah in 2008 after being identified in 2018 based on evide…
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