A person accused of being US fugitive Nicholas Rossi made senior hospital employees flee from him in worry for his or her security.
Arthur Knight, 35, allegedly behaved in a threatening or abusive method at a ward at Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth College Hospital on July 5, 2022. Marketing consultant Evelyn Millar claimed wheelchair-bound Knight jumped off the bed and ran at her and nurse Yasmin Bagli.
The pair advised Glasgow Sheriff Court docket this occurred after telling him he was match to be discharged residence. They added Knight - who makes use of an oxygen masks - was additionally verbally abusive and allegedly advised them to "shut the f*** up."
Court docket papers state Knight goes by different names resembling Nicholas Rossi, Nicholas Alahverdian, Nicholas Brown, Arthur Winston Brown and Arthur Knight Brown. Knight is said to be on bail from Edinburgh Sheriff Enchantment Court docket the place he faces extradition to the USA in relation to an alleged intercourse assault.
Knight has been said in courtroom as being a registered intercourse offender accused of different crimes together with fraud and sexual battery. The courtroom heard from Dr Millar, 58, who said that her affected person was recognized to her as "Arthur Knight Brown."
She claimed she was capable of converse to "Brown" - who was mendacity in mattress - on her third try with nurse Bagli as he was asleep. Prosecutor Julie Clark requested if the physician fashioned an opinion about his accent.
She replied: "I can not actually bear in mind, when he spoke he had an oxygen masks on and it is tough to be clear." She added that she believed Knight to be motionless and he was initially "fairly calm."
The witness mentioned: "I wasn't certain what he was going to say however we listened to him and he made it clear he was not proud of the care we had been giving him and never comfortable concerning the prospect of being medically discharged residence."
Dr Millar said Knight then made "obscenities" and used the "F phrase" frequently. She mentioned: "He turned extra aggressive and jumped up and about and that is once I realised he wasn't comfortable about issues.
"He leapt up and about and began coming in the direction of us - he got here up and about at a really speedy pace. As he got here in the direction of us, he was inches from our faces, we had been totally terrified, we thought he was coming to hurt us.
"Yasmin mentioned 'run' and I mentioned 'sure' and we actually ran from the room - it was extraordinarily scary."
Miss Clark requested if Knight had his oxygen masks on. Dr Millar replied: "As he got here in the direction of us the masks got here off, he was saying lots with out the oxygen masks being on."
Miss Clark then requested what the witness believed brought on the incident. She replied: "I do not assume he wished to be discharged residence - that is my opinion or not proud of our plan for discharge."
The witness said that she and nurse Bagli had been despatched residence from work and didn't return for 2 days. David Kinloch, defending, mentioned: "Is it doable the explanation he had, assuming in your proof he was shouting, swearing and leaping off the bed, is that he was affected by a seizure?"
Dr Millar replied: "I am fairly assured it wasn't a seizure." Requested if she might rule it out completely by Mr Kinloch, the physician added: "Sure, most docs are educated to recognise seizures."
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Nurse Bagli, 27, advised the courtroom that Knight had been admitted to A and E for "coloristic chest ache and seizures." She claimed that Knight advised them to "shut the f*** up" when it was revealed he could be discharged.
The witness claimed that she ran as she thought she was "going to be put in hurt." She said that she locked herself in a distinct ward for her security after the incident.
She added that she returned to Knight's room 5 minutes later the place he was "sitting on the ground" and shouting. The trial continues earlier than Sheriff Joseph Platt.
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