Extradition from Rome looms for suspect in Melbourne’s 1977 Easey Street murders

Italian government approves request for Perry Kouroumblis to be returned. He maintains his innocence

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A Greek Australian dual national is a step closer to being extradited from Rome to Australia over the horrific cold-case killings of two Melbourne women.

Perry Kouroumblis was arrested at Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci airport in September, decades after the murders of Suzanne Armstrong, 28, and Susan Bartlett, 27, in January 1977.