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Alan McEwen

US fugitive Nicholas Rossi has no medical need for wheelchair, prison doctor tells court

US fugitive Nicholas Rossi has no medical need for using a wheelchair, his prison doctor told a court.

Dr Barbara Mundweil said Rossi claims to be “paralysed”, but there had been no diagnosis of any condition preventing him from walking.

The GP said she’d viewed CCTV from Edinburgh’s Saughton Prison, where she cares for inmates including Rossi, which appeared to show him kicking a door which allegedly struck a prison officer.

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