A journalist formerly accused of another cold case killing has been aired as an alternative suspect in the Easey Street double murder.

Lawyers for Perry Kouroumblis, 66, have spent a second day questioning witnesses and police over the 1977 deaths of Suzanne Armstrong, 28, and Susan Bartlett, 27.

The women's bodies were found by neighbours on January 13 of that year, after Ms Armstrong's toddler Gregory was heard crying inside his cot at the Easey Street home in Collingwood.

Kouroumblis was extradited from Italy in December 2024 and charged with the two murders, and rape of Ms Armstrong, after advances in DNA testing allegedly connected him to the crime scene.

His barrister Dermott Dann KC on Thursday cross-examined next door neighbour Ilona Miklosvary, who had discovered the women's b

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