A man fakes his death – level 2
16-11-2022 15:00
On Friday, a Scottish court decided that Arthur Knight faked his own death, and his real name was Nicolas Rossi. Rossi will return to the US where a court convicted him of a sexual attack.
In 2020, Rossi faked his own death, because he didn’t want to go to prison, and he escaped to Scotland. Last year, he got sick with the coronavirus and went to hospital. Staff at the hospital noticed that he had tattoos on his arms.
Authorities learned that the man was someone else. For 11 months, Rossi tried to convince authorities that he was Knight. He said that someone tattooed his arms when he was unconscious in the hospital.
Rossi will return to the US in March 2023.
Difficult words: convict (to confirm in court that someone did something wrong), convince (to make someone believe something), unconscious (not awake and aware).
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