A man accused of faking his death and living under a false identity in the UK to dodge rape charges was finally face-to-face with one of the women accusing him of sexual assault as his jury trial began in Utah court Monday.

Nicholas Rossi — whose legal name is Nicholas Alahverdian — is accused of sexually assaulting two women in Utah in 2008. The 38-year-old has pleaded not guilty to the charges as prosecutors claim he used his charm to take advantage of and rape vulnerable young women. 3

Prosecutors are trying the cases separately, with the first set in Salt Lake County.

The former Rhode Island foster kid was found alive and arrested in Scotland in 2021 — a year after an obituary claimed he’d died of late-stage non-Hodgkin lymphoma — when Glasgow hospital staff recognized him

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