Accused murderer disrupts Melbourne court hearing

A man charged with the brutal murders of a pregnant woman and her partner in Melbourne's southeast disrupted a court hearing on Tuesday, proclaiming his innocence and accusing the victim of stealing his money and dog.

Ross Judd, 35, faces two counts of murder for the deaths of 39-year-old Athena Georgopoulos and her 50-year-old partner, Andrew Gunn. Their bodies were discovered in their unit on Adrienne Crescent in Mount Waverley on August 11, 2023. Georgopoulos, who was five months pregnant with her first child and known to friends as Tina, was killed alongside Gunn, whose head had been severed. A neighbor, Ben Scott-Sandvik, found the couple after hearing raised voices and sounds of a struggle around 10 p.m. that evening. "Nobody should have to come across what I saw down there," Scott-Sandvik said at the time. "Nobody needs to live knowing that this sort of thing has happened to their family."

Police arrested Judd hours later, at about 1:40 a.m. on August 12, at Westall train station in nearby Clayton South, roughly six kilometers from the crime scene. He was shoeless, dressed in a white short-sleeved T-shirt soaked in blood, and accompanied by two large dogs. Video footage...