{"id":268957,"date":"2025-08-08T18:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T17:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/nicholas-rossi-false-names-a-fake-death-and-the-flight-from-justice\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T18:00:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T17:00:35","slug":"nicholas-rossi-false-names-a-fake-death-and-the-flight-from-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/nicholas-rossi-false-names-a-fake-death-and-the-flight-from-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Rossi: False names, a fake death and the flight from justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/kKZktohG5LU\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Nicholas Rossi: False names, a fake death and the flight from justice\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kKZktohG5LU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Arthur Knight was an Irishman, wrongly arrested \u2013 he claimed \u2013\u00a0whilst recovering from a coma in a Glasgow hospital. Except \u201cArthur Knight\u201d didn\u2019t exist. \u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHis real name is Nicholas Rossi \u2013 a convicted sex offender, originally from the United States, who is now\u00a0facing trial in Utah on two further counts of rape. \u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBut for years, he attempted to convince Scottish authorities he was the victim of a wild conspiracy. \u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nRossi\u2019s extradition hearing was covered at the time by Sky News\u2019 correspondent, James Matthews, who joins Niall Paterson on The Daily to relive those extraordinary events ahead of the start of his new trial.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nProducers: Emily Hulme and Emma Rae Woodhouse\u00a0<br \/>\nEditor: Mike Bovill \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Audio clip credits:<br \/>\nNBC &#8211; Dateline<br \/>\n\u201cI am not Nicholas\u201d Audible podcast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur Knight was an Irishman, wrongly arrested \u2013 he claimed \u2013\u00a0whilst recovering from a coma in a Glasgow hospital. 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