Convicted of rape, the American tried to evade justice by posing as someone else in Scotland

Nicholas Rossi, born Nicholas Alavirdian in 1984, was sentenced in October 2025 to a minimum of five years in prison for rape in the United States. He is due to be sentenced next month for a second rape conviction. But what makes his story so extraordinary is his bizarre attempt to evade American justice—by pretending to be someone else.