US rape suspect Nicholas Rossi has misplaced a bid for freedom and can keep behind bars forward of his extradition listening to subsequent month.
Attorneys for Rossi, who fled to Scotland from America to flee an array of alleged offences, utilized for bail on Thursday morning.
However the utility, held in non-public on the Sheriff Attraction Courtroom in Edinburgh, was refused.
Two hours later Rossi, 35, appeared through video hyperlink on the metropolis’s sheriff court docket for a procedural listening to.
Sitting in his wheelchair, Rossi, who maintains he's truly a person known as Arthur Knight, appeared dishevelled and wept on numerous events.
Not sporting his ordinary oxygen masks and clearly emotional, Rossi held up his hand to talk a number of instances however wasn’t capable of interject.
At earlier hearings, Rossi launched into rants about his want for bail and lambasted his therapy whereas being held within the capital’s Saughton Jail.
Rossi, who's accused of faking his personal demise within the US, was arrested at Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth College Hospital final December whereas receiving therapy for Covid-19.
Ronnie Renucci KC, representing the accused, mentioned the defence had been ready to argue the difficulty of Rossi’s true id at a deliberate two-day extradition listening to beginning on November 7.
Renucci mentioned a psychologist who had beforehand examined Rossi in jail had now been given his medical data to help her analysis however her report wasn’t full.
Rossi instructed a earlier listening to he’d had a coronary heart assault in jail whereas his psychological well being was deteriorating and he was affected by hallucinations.
Sheriff Maciver mentioned subsequent month’s extradition listening to might “take care of identification earlier than shifting on to the rest”.
Advocate depute Paul Harvey mentioned he appreciated earlier sheriffs who've heard Rossi’s case had expressed “anxiousness” about settling his id as “shortly as potential”.
Mr Harvey mentioned proof surrounding Rossi’s id could possibly be offered on the November listening to earlier than it was adjourned for a ruling to be made.
He mentioned the Crown had disclosed all of its proof relating to Rossi’s id to the defence, except for one witness they wished to achieve.
Mr Harvey mentioned the prosecution’s identification case would primarily encompass “skilled witnesses”.
Ultimately week’s listening to on the case, it was revealed that Rossi had been examined and his physique photographed in Saughton in a bid to find out his id.
Prosecutors have pictures of the person they are saying is Nicholas Rossi, together with his distinctive tattoos, the court docket heard.
After the court docket heard that Rossi’s earlier bail utility had been denied, Mr Renucci mentioned he would contemplate whether or not to request his shopper is dropped at court docket for the following listening to or seems through video.
Sheriff Maciver set the extradition listening to to start on November 7 and mentioned Rossi “shall be in custody for these proceedings”.
Elevating his hand to talk, Rossi solely managed to say “My lord” earlier than the feed was minimize.
US prosecutors declare Rossi raped a 21-year-old in Utah, in 2008. He's additionally mentioned to have attacked girls in Rhode Island, Ohio and Massachusetts. They are saying he has beforehand used the names Nick Alan, Nicholas Brown, Arthur Brown and Arthur Knight.
Rossi reportedly instructed US media in December 2019 that he had late-stage non-Hodgkin lymphoma and had weeks to reside. A number of shops reported that he had died in February 2020.