JAKARTA - As if the squirrel jumped, it would also fall. Adagium is suitable to describe the fate of this rape suspect who has been on the run for a dozen years to fake his death, but will now be extradited after being caught during the last pandemic.
A British court has given the green light to extradite a United States citizen who faces rape charges in Uncle Sam's country.
Nicholas Rossi, 35, who was on the Interpol wanted list, was arrested in October 2021 while being treated for COVID-19 at the Glasgow hospital.
However, he claimed to be the victim of a misidentity. He claims to be Arthur Knight, although the police identified him as Nicholas Rossi - a man wanted by the US justice system, related to an investigation into the rape of a woman in Utah in 2008, as well as other sexual assault.
Identification of him is based on a typical tattoo described in a description issued by Interpol, as reported by Euronews on August 2.
In 2019, while living in the State of Rhode Island, USA, Rossi admitted to suffering from late-stage non-Hodgkins lymphoma. News of the death using his real name was published shortly after that in local media.
US authorities say he has used as many as 16 pseudonyms over the years, including Nicholas Alahverdian.
In mid-November, the Edinburgh Court officially identified him as Rossi, viewing his explanation as "impossible and fantastic".
Even as the court ruled to support his extradition on Wednesday, Rossi insisted that he was a victim of an identity error.
He claims that a typical tattoo in Interpol's description was added to him without his knowledge when he was unconscious at the hospital.
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He also said his fingerprints, which were taken at the hospital, had been exchanged with Rossi's fingerprints to disguise himself as a fugitive. He also explained that he could not give birth certificates under the name Arthur Knight, because he was born an orphan in Ireland.
During the extradition hearing in June, he appeared in clothes he described as clothes worn by Orthodox Jews, explaining that he had changed beliefs in prison.
He also appeared in an electric wheelchair and wore an oxygen mask. However, a doctor decided that there was no medical reason for that, describing his feet as "strong and athletic".
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