The father of missing Toronto teenager Mariam Makhniashvili appeared in court Wednesday on charges related to a double stabbing, but did not apply for bail.
Vakhtang Makhniashvili, 50, is facing charges of attempted murder, aggravated assault and breach of recognizance stemming from the Nov. 4 incident.
Calvin Barry, Makhniashvili's lawyer, told the court that he doesn't have a surety arranged yet for his client. He is also waiting for his client to undergo a psychiatric examination.
Outside court, Barry told reporters: "These doctors have their own backlog, and so we're hoping to have someone see him this week."
The defence agreed to a Crown request that Makhniashvili not attempt to contact any of the complainants.
Barry said his client is doing fine under the circumstances.
Makhniashvili has been held in protective custody in the Metro Toronto West Detention Centre's medical wing. He turned himself in to police after a man and woman were stabbed at their Greenwood Avenue home.
A Nov. 5 bail hearing was adjourned after his lawyer requested Makhniashvili be evaluated by a forensic psychiatrist.
The victims have been identified as David and Delores Langer, a couple who posted bail for Makhniashvili when he was charged in a separate stabbing about six months ago.
That incident occurred on May 7, a day in which a body had been discovered in a northeast Toronto park.
Makhniashvili reportedly did not know the couple when they offered to put up bail on his behalf.
For unknown reasons, the couple later withdrew bail and his own wife, Lela Tabidze, was forced to put up his bail instead. Tabidze appeared in court Wednesday to support her husband.
After Makhniashvili's last court appearance, Barry said his client has been under tremendous stress.
The Makhniashvili family has been at the centre of a series of bizarre headlines since then 17-year-old Mariam vanished in September 2009.
Earlier this month, 17-year-old son Giorgi, also known as George, disappeared from home, only to turn up at a police station the next morning.
Vakhtang Makhniashvili would later dismiss the disappearance as teenage angst, but the similarities between George's disappearance and his sister's a year earlier caused a momentary frenzy.
George was the last person known to see Mariam on Sept. 14, 2009 after they arrived at Forest Hill Collegiate Institute. Other than the discovery of her school backpack several weeks later, no firm evidence of her fate has ever surfaced.
No allegations against Vakhtang have been proven in a court of law.
