PROVO, Utah — Nicholas Rossi is once again appearing inside a Utah courtroom as he is set to be sentenced after being convicted of the 2008 rape of his ex-girlfriend in Orem.
Watch Nicholas Rossi sentencing hearing live below:
It's the second time in weeks that Rossi has been sentenced. On Oct. 20, he was sentenced to 5 years to life in prison after he was found guilty of the rape of a Salt Lake County woman, also in 2008.
Shortly after Tuesday's sentencing began, Rossi asked for time to speak to his council and the hearing was paused until it resumed just before 9:30 a.m.
During the trial in which Rossi faces a second sentence, his ex-girlfriend claimed she ended a relationship with him over his aggressive behavior and failure to pay her the money he had borrowed.
Rossi speaks on his own behalf during sentencing hearing in video below:
Rossi had the woman come to his house in September 2008 under the pretense of repaying her the money, but instead raped her.
Although the rape occurred in 2008, a backlog in testing did not identify Rossi as the suspect until years later, and he wasn't charged until 2020.
While denying he was the man authorities were looking for, Rossi fled to the United Kingdom and lived under the name Arthur Knight before being extradited from Scotland back to the United States.
Rossi was found guilty in August of raping a woman he had met online, also in 2008, before he fled the country in an attempt to avoid prosecution.
