Nicholas Rossi, the American rapist who faked his death and fled to Scotland in a bid to escape justice, has died in a US hospital.
The Utah Department of Corrections said the 38-year-old had been suffering from “chronic, degenerative conditions”.
Rossi was found guilty of raping two women in Utah in 2008 after two separate trials in 2024.
He was ordered to serve two sentences of between five years and life consecutively.
Rossi had fled to Scotland in 2021 in an attempt to evade justice but was arrested in the Covid ward of a Glasgow hospital.
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