A U.S. man who authorities say faked his death and fled to the United Kingdom to avoid rape charges is scheduled to be sentenced in Utah on Monday. It is the first sentence in two recent rape convictions for Nicholas Rossi. Rossi has gone by several aliases. His legal name is Nicholas Alahverdian. Authorities doubted an online obituary that claimed Rossi died in 2020. They arrested him in Scotland in 2021 for a 2008 rape in the Salt Lake City area. Rossi was convicted in August. Rossi also awaits sentencing on a September conviction for a raping a different woman in Utah around the same time in 2008.
