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Nicholas Rossi Convicted of 2008 Rape by Utah Jury

He is set to be sentenced on October 20 under Utah’s first-degree felony rape statute.

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The defendant authorities believe to be Nicholas Rossi, alias Nicholas Alahverdian, leaves Edinburgh Sheriff And Justice Of The Peace Court, in Edinburgh, Scotland, on April 7, 2022.

Overview

  • A jury in Salt Lake County convicted Rossi on August 14 of raping a former girlfriend in 2008 after the accuser and her parents described how he forced her into sex following a brief engagement sparked by a Craigslist ad.
  • Rossi was identified through a 2018 DNA match to a backlog rape kit as part of Utah’s statewide testing initiative and declined to testify in his own defense.
  • He fled the U.S. after publishing a fake obituary in 2020 and living under aliases before his 2021 arrest in Glasgow when hospital staff matched his tattoos to an Interpol notice.
  • The conviction carries a punishment range of five years to life in prison under Utah’s first-degree felony rape statute.
  • He is scheduled to stand trial in Utah County in September 2025 on a separate 2008 rape allegation.