Man facing extradition claims he was given distinctive tattoos ‘while in coma’

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Addressing one particular photo on the Interpol red notice of Rossi, which showed a tattoo of a red cross above an angel wing, Ms Keating said: “That looks like the tattoo I saw on Arthur Knight.” The two police officers who arrested the man, Pc Shannon McGill and Pc Jamie Crombie, also said they recognised Rossi’s tattoos on the man’s arms in evidence. “All I can say is that when I awoke from the coma, there were tattoos on my person and they were not identical to what appears on these screens.” Mr Harvey then asked: “The staff, doctors, nurses in the ICU at QEUH did nothing to prevent someone putting these tattoos on your body while you were in a coma?” The man said in his “waking moments” he recalled there being “many, many people on the ward” and started to talk about apparent water contamination issues in the building before the sheriff asked him to stop drifting off topic. Yesterday, Tenprint Identification Officer Lisa Davidson told the court that fingerprints taken by police in July from the man in HMP Saughton Prison, are “identical” to Rossi’s fingerprints on the Interpol red notice and the extradition request. Mr Harvey put it to the man: “Your evidence is that the Utah authorities have lied to this court about how they obtained the fingerprints?” To which he replied: “Yes.” When asked if the headshots of Rossi on the Interpol red notice and extradition request were him, the man said the images has been transposed by David Leavitt.