Adoptive dad of fugitive US sex offender Nicholas Rossi breaks silence as he claims cops have the right man

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The adoptive dad of fugitive US sex offender Nicholas Rossi has said that the authorities have the right man. Engelbert Humperdinck impersonator David Rossi, 63, is prepared to travel to Scotland from his home in Rhode Island to identify him.

Nicholas, 34, who was found hiding in Glasgow in December, faces extradition to the US for charges of rape and fraud.The convicted sex offender has created a fake persona with an English accent, claiming he is “Arthur Knight”.Speaking from his home in Rhode Island, David said: “That is him.“I know my son, he is trying everything possible to get out of this.“That English accent is all bull.”Nicholas is due at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Thursday in the latest hearing in a bid to extradite him to the US to face allegations that he raped a 21-year-old ex-girlfriend in Utah in 2008.He also stands accused of sexually assaulting others in Ohio, Rhode Island and Massachusetts and is facing further charges of defrauding a foster dad out of £146,000.David added: “He needs to pay for what he did to these poor girls and conning that man out of the money.”David met Nicholas’s waitress mum Diana in 1994 when he was performing his Humperdinck tribute act.The couple wed in 1996 and he adopted her three kids including Nicholas and his younger siblings Joseph and Diandra.They separated and divorced in 2003.David said of his son: “He is sick.

He was very manipulative as a child. Everything had to be his way.”Nicholas was arrested while being treated at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow for Covid-19.He claims his lungs are severely scarred, meaning he must be hooked up to an oxygen cylinder and use a wheelchair.The Sunday Mail previously revealed that Nicholas fled from Ireland to