An accused double murderer has faced a Melbourne court close to five decades after police allege he stabbed two women to death in a frenzied attack. Perry Kouroumblis, 65, appeared bleary-eyed as he sat in the dock of the Melbourne magistrates court on Wednesday after arriving on Australian soil on Tuesday night. He was extradited from Italy to face two charges of murder and one count of rape, three months after he was arrested at a Rome airport. Kouroumblis was interviewed by Victorian detectives for several hours on Wednesday before he was formally charged over the January 1977 killings. Police