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Nicholas Rossi Dies After Discontinuing Treatment Following Extradition and Convictions

Nicholas Rossi, 38, dies after being taken from a Utah prison to a hospital and choosing to stop medical treatment, Utah Department of Corrections spokesperson Richard Piatt says.Rossi was serving at least 10 years after 2025 convictions for raping two women in northern Utah, a sentence based on DNA evidence from a decade-old rape kit identified in 2018.He was extradited from Scotland to Utah in 2024 after hospital staff in Glasgow recognized tattoos while he was receiving COVID-19 treatment, having used multiple aliases and published a false obituary in 2020 claiming he had died of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.Victims and family were notified, and one victim told the court the assaults had lasting effects as prosecutors confirmed Rossi had maintained his innocence through his trial and sentencing.
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