The adoptive dad of fugitive US intercourse offender Nicholas Rossi has mentioned that the authorities have the correct man.
Engelbert Humperdinck impersonator David Rossi, 63, is ready to journey to Scotland from his dwelling in Rhode Island to determine him.
Nicholas, 34, who was discovered hiding in Glasgow in December, faces extradition to the US for prices of rape and fraud.
The convicted intercourse offender has created a pretend persona with an English accent, claiming he's “Arthur Knight”.
Talking from his dwelling in Rhode Island, David mentioned: “That's him.
“I do know my son, he's making an attempt every little thing attainable to get out of this.
“That English accent is all bull.”
Nicholas is due at Edinburgh Sheriff Court docket on Thursday within the newest listening to in a bid to extradite him to the US to face allegations that he raped a 21-year-old ex-girlfriend in Utah in 2008.
He additionally stands accused of sexually assaulting others in Ohio, Rhode Island and Massachusetts and is dealing with additional prices of defrauding a foster dad out of £146,000.
David added: “He must pay for what he did to those poor women and conning that man out of the cash.”
David met Nicholas’s waitress mum Diana in 1994 when he was performing his Humperdinck tribute act.
The couple wed in 1996 and he adopted her three children together with Nicholas and his youthful siblings Joseph and Diandra.
They separated and divorced in 2003.
David mentioned of his son: “He's sick. He was very manipulative as a toddler. Every part needed to be his manner.”
Nicholas was arrested whereas being handled on the Queen Elizabeth College Hospital in Glasgow for Covid-19.
He claims his lungs are severely scarred, that means he should be hooked as much as an oxygen cylinder and use a wheelchair.
The Sunday Mail beforehand revealed that Nicholas fled from Eire to England, used an Irish accent and wed Miranda in 2020.
He then faked his personal dying to most cancers in America as authorities closed in.
We additionally revealed how in 2020, whereas utilizing the identify Nicholas Brown, he scammed a Canadian TV star out of $40,000 by claiming he would market her enterprise within the UK and arrange a fraudulent firm in Miranda’s brother’s identify.
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The couple moved to Scotland in Could final yr with Nicholas adopting an English accent and the identify “Arthur Knight”, and renting a flat.
David added: “If I had the means and the cash I'd come to Scotland.
“I'd say to his face, ‘Nicky, inform them who you might be. Lower the bull and face the results and serve your time.’”
In 2008 Nicholas was convicted of attacking a pupil at Sinclair Group School in Dayton, Ohio.
He was fined and placed on the intercourse offenders’ register for the indecency.
Nicholas has refused to talk to Sunday Mail journalists.
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