1 | Dinner with a Fugitive
7/6/202636 min
A man is arrested on a Covid ward in Glasgow. The police say he’s US fugitive Nicholas Rossi. He says he’s Arthur Knight, an innocent Irishman.
Content Warning: This series contains adult themes and references to sexual violence.
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Content warning. This series contains adult themes and references to sexual violence. You are listening to I Am Not Nicholas, an Audible original. Episode 1, Dinner with a Fugitive, in which we meet our host, Jane McSorley.
Jane McSorley· Host0:18
So every morning, without fail, it's usually when I'm sitting down having my breakfast or having a cup of tea in the morning, I always look at the news online. Always. So I start off with the national news. I then go to Scotland because that's where I'm living. Then I go to Northern Ireland because that's where I'm from. So that's always what I do every morning. I saw this story on a Saturday and it was an American fugitive who faked death found alive in Glasgow.
Speaker 3· Soundbite0:49
A man arrested on a Covid ward in a Glasgow hospital accused by US authorities of being a fugitive who faked his own death to evade justice.
Jane McSorley· Host0:59
As soon as I saw the story, I mean, it grabbed my interest straight away.
Speaker 3· Soundbite1:04
American prosecutors say Nicholas Rossi is wanted on a rape charge in Utah. But the man at the center of the extradition process claims it's a mistake and is challenging them to prove his identity.
Jane McSorley· Host1:17
It was stranger than fiction and it was effectively on my doorstep.
Speaker 4· Soundbite1:21
The extradition process was triggered when police arrested a COVID patient in this hospital in December. They say he's Nicholas Rossi.