The man accused of the 1977 Easey Street killings has faced court from behind glass, almost 50 years after the slaying of two women.Perry Kouroumblis, 65, sat between two security guards at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday afternoon,

Charges have been laid over one of Australia's most high-profile cold case murders, with a man extradited from Italy charged with rape and two counts of murder.

Perry Kouroumblis has been charged with two counts of murder and one count of rape over Melbourne's Easey Street killings.

Easey Street murder suspect Perry Kouroumblis has touched down in Melbourne after a marathon extradition from Rome. The 65-year-old was approved for extradition from Italy in late October, almost 50 years after Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett were found dead in their Collingwood home.

An accused double murderer has faced a Melbourne court, close to five decades after he allegedly stabbed two women to death.

Under police guard, the man at the centre of a 47-year-old double-murder investigation arrives in Melbourne after his extradition from Europe was completed.

A man wanted over Australian cold case murders has been extradited from Rome almost 47 years after the brutal killings.

Dressed in a black jumper and sporting a beard, Kouroumblis sat quietly in economy class seat 35E without handcuffs, eating a meal and drinking water.

Kouroumblis was arrested at Rome’s Leonardo Da Vinci Airport in September over the alleged slaying of Suzanne Armstrong, 28, and Susan Bartlett, 27, in January 1977. Dubbed the “Easey Street murders”, the friends were found dead with more than two dozen stab wounds in their home on Easey Street in Collingwood in Melbourne’s inner north.

A man wanted over one of Australia's most infamous cold cases, dubbed the Easey Street murders, is on his way back to the country after being extradited from Italy. Suzanne Armstrong, 27, and Susan Bartlett,

A suspect in one of Australia ’s most chilling cold cases is expected to be back in the country after nearly half a century following his extradition from Italy. Perry Kouroumblis, 65, was arrested earlier this year in Rome for his alleged involvement in the 1977 “Easey Street murders” after DNA advancements reignited police investigations into the killing of two young women in Melbourne.