FUGITIVE Nicholas Rossi has been found guilty of rape in the US after faking his own death and fleeing to Scotland.
The 38-year-old denied all the charges at the rape trial in Salt Lake City, Utah.
A jury found Rossi guilty of a 2008 rape after a three-day trial in which his accuser and her parents took the stand.
The jurors of four men and four women took more than eight hours to reach their verdict.
The verdict came after Rossi declined to testify on his own behalf.
The court showdown happened after Rossi – who claimed to be an Irish orphan called Arthur Knight – was extradited from the UK in January last year.
Rossi showed no emotion as the verdict was read out.
He will be sentenced in the case on October 20 and is set to stand trial in September for another rape charge in Utah County.
The witness – who can’t be named – told Salt Lake County she started a relationship with Rossi while she was recovering from a traumatic brain injury.
But things turned sour and she said he started “becoming controlling and saying mean things to me”.
She went on to describe an incident where he pounded on her car and used his body to block her from pulling out of a garage.
They went inside the house where she told of being pushed onto a bed, held down and “forced me to have sex with him”.
The woman also told the court how she initially met Ross through the dating website Craigslist, and they quickly planned to marry.
We told how Rossi quit the US in 2017, sparking an international manhunt.
He was rumbled in a Covid ward at Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in 2021 and identified via tattoos.
He was finally returned to the US last year following a lengthy legal battle when he appeared at Scots courts in a pin-striped suit and oxygen mask.
Rossi was extradited to Utah in January 2024 while insisting he was an Irish orphan named Arthur Knight who was being framed.
Investigators say they identified at least a dozen aliases Rossi used over the years to evade capture.
