Nicholas Rossi found guilty of rape charge

Nicholas Rossi, a US man who faked his death and fled to Scotland to escape rape charges, has been found guilty of one of them at a court in Utah.

The 38-year-old was accused of sexually assaulting two women in the state in 2008 - one in Salt Lake County, the other in Utah County. He denied the charges.

Prosecutors are trying the cases separately. His jury trial in the Salt Lake case got under way on Monday.

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