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

Less than 24 hours after arriving in Melbourne, Perry Kouroumblis will face court over the alleged brutal double murder.

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.

Suspect in 1977 Easey Street murders case extradited from Italy - Perry Kouroumblis, 65, has never been charged for brutal killing of two women and denies involvement

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.

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,

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

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 has been charged over the deaths of two women in one of Australia's most high-profile cold cases.

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,

Easey Street murder suspect Easey Street Perry Kouroumblis on his way back to Australia. Laws have passed federal parliament, that will ban some social media platforms for people aged under 16. The move has attracted attention across the world.