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SPEAKING with an upper-class English accent through an oxygen mask, Arthur Knight doesn't seem a likely candidate for a US ­fugitive. But according to the FBI , he was actually suspected serial rapist and conman ­Nicholas Rossi, who had faked his own death after fleeing the States. 4 Nicholas Rossi in a wheelchair at a Scottish court in 2023 Credit: Getty Who is Arthur Knight? Real name Nicholas Alahverdian, Arthur Knight was born on July 11, 1987, in Rhode Island, United States.

He is known by the police as Nicholas Rossi, among other aliases, Rossi is an American sex offender who faked his own death in 2020 He has one prior conviction, for sexually assaulting Mary Grebinski when she was a 19-year-old student in Ohio in 2008. For a short period of time, Rossi studied comparative literature in extension program classes offered by Harvard University. However, he didn't graduate as in 2012 he was "administratively withdrawn" from the course when the uni learned of his sex offender status.



Despite this, Rossi claimed to be a "Harvard scholar, political scientist and sociologist". Why did Nicholas Rossi go by the alias, Arthur Knight? Rossi is believed to have lived under at least 16 different names. Most read in News TV THE NEIL DEAL Celtic icon Lennon spotted arriving at airport ahead of management return STARMER STALKED Baby Reindeer 'stalker' bombarded Keir Starmer with hundreds of emails DEATH PROBE Man, 27, dies after stabbing as police hunt 2 suspects in horror Glasgow a.

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