The suspected American sex offender faked his own death in 2020 and created a false identity in the UK as Arthur Knight
A fugitive who faked his own death and invented a false identity in the UK is the man wanted in the US on rape charges, a court has found.
Edinburgh Sheriff Court has ruled that a man claiming to be Arthur Knight, who presented himself as an upper-class English gentleman while living in Glasgow’s West End, is in fact the suspected serial sexual offender Nicholas Rossi.
In one of the most bizarre cases ever seen in the Scottish courts, he claimed that tattoos which matched an Interpol red notice for Rossi had been added to his arms while he was in a coma and that fingerprint records had been manipulated in a conspiracy against him.
He also claimed that he had never left the British Isles and had first travelled to the UK on a ferry from Ireland, where he was an orphan raised in care, as a teenager.