Nicholas Rossi wrestled marshalls with trousers down as he tried to avoid plane out of Scotland
dailyrecord.co.ukFugitive sex offender Nicholas Rossi roared and cried as he left jail to be put on a flight out of Scotland heading for the US.
The 36-year-old was forced on to the plane after wrestling with staff on the tarmac with his trousers at his ankles.Rossi’s wife Miranda Knight, 42, made last-minute legal efforts on Friday to stop the flight taking off at Edinburgh Airport, which had officials from the US Marshall’s Service and the Department of Justice on board.A source said: “He was on the plane but his wife was still trying to get some kind of legal representation to stop it, in vain.
Neither her nor Rossi were given any notice that it was going to happen when it did but they should have been expecting it.”An eyewitness at the airport said: “The marshalls had to struggle with him and he obviously didn’t want to get on that plane.
He struggled so much his trousers ended up at his ankles.”The Sunday Mail has learned Rossi had no prior warning he was leaving the country despite ministers last month signing off his extradition to the US where he is wanted on two historical rape charges.A prison source at HMP Edinburgh, where Rossi has been locked up for the last 18 months, said: “Nicholas was roaring and crying as he was taken away.
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