US fugitive Nicholas Rossi has no medical need for using a wheelchair, his prison doctor told a court.
She was giving her evidence on the third day of Rossi’s extradition hearing at the city’s sheriff court on Wednesday. Dr Mundweil, who has cared for Rossi since she started work at the jail last September, said he’d been “severely ill with covid” at the time of his arrest. Dr Mundweil said she’d examined Rossi and found his legs to be “well muscled”, adding they were “not the legs of a paraplegic”.Dr Mundweil said Rossi would “throw himself out of his wheelchair” and staff would previously have to help him back into it.Dr Mundweil told the hearing that Rossi stopped using an extra oxygen supply in February.The doctor said medics would test his oxygen levels and they had “always been satisfactory” and never a concern.
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