When a man in an old-fashioned suit and speaking in a lardy-dart English accent arrived in

Glasgow's fashionable West End not so long ago, claiming to be a university academic, he

excited a limited amount of polite interest in the local community. He was known to locals

as Arthur Knight. A thousand of miles away in America, he was believed by the authorities

to be Nicholas Rossi, a fugitive from the law who would soon be arrested on an international

warrant. Rossi was wanted in four U.S. states on charges including fraud, sexual assault

and rape. By the way, if those issues are a trigger for you, consider this a warning.

A man suspected in a sexual assault case in Utah years ago is now in police custody in

Scotland tonight. That same man faked his own death in Rhode Island just two years ago.

Now the subject of an extradition battle, he maintains he's the victim of a monstrous

miscarriage of justice. It's all a case of mistaken identity and that in the fullness of time

he'll be shown to be innocent. But for authorities in the U.S. and now in Scotland,

as well as Rossi's alleged victims on both sides of the Atlantic, he's a suspect on the run

from justice. One American prosecutor is in hot pursuit. Utah County attorney David Levitt says

finding an arresting Nicholas Rossi was no easy task. This is a real break in a difficult case.

You're listening to stories about times and the times and the Sunday times. I'm David

Aronovich. Today, Arthur Knight, bookish Delboy or international fugitive.

My name is Mark Horn. I'm Scotland reporter for the Times. So I report on anything and everything

that goes on north of the border for the time. That is a big brief mark. It is. But there's

nothing quite as unusual as this particular story as there's landed on my desk, as we are going

to find out. So in the first instance, can you just tell us what the name is of the person

we're going to be talking about? It depends on who you ask. If you ask the U.S. authorities,

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