Standing on the battlements of his Scottish castle, David Leavitt cannot forget the day his old life crumbled. One year ago he called reporters and camera crews to his office and assured them he was not the leader of a ritualised child sex abuse ring. Fighting back tears, the then Utah County prosecutor said he and his wife Chelom, an academic and sex therapist, had been accused of being involved in the “cannibalising and murder of small children”.
The source of the “ludicrous, outlandish and groundless” claims, he insisted, was Nicholas Rossi, a sex offender and alleged fugitive whom he was trying to extradite to the US to face a rape charge.
Looking over the sparkling waters of Loch Long, Leavitt — whose brother Mike
