Masa Vukotic's father looks on as Sean Price appears in court charged with murder
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The father of 17-year-old stabbing victim Masa Vukotic has attended the second court appearance of his daughter's accused killer in Melbourne.
Sean Price was charged with murdering Ms Vukotic as she walked through Koonung Creek Linear Reserve in Stanton Street near her home in Doncaster on Tuesday night.
Neighbours called triple-0 after they heard screaming, but paramedics were unable to revive the girl, who had been stabbed in the upper body.
Price, 31, from Albion, glared wide-eyed at reporters and put his hands to his mouth as he sat in the dock for his brief appearance in the Melbourne Magistrates Court.
Ms Vukotic's father, Slabvoljub Vukotic, stared at Price throughout the hearing.
Price was also charged with rape, robbery and assault relating to an alleged crime spree just before he handed himself into Sunshine police station on Thursday morning.
Prosecutors said they needed to examine extensive amounts of CCTV footage from 12 suburbs taken over a week.
When the magistrate asked the accused to stand, Price said nothing and stared at the ceiling.
Magistrate Charles Rozencwajg remanded Price in custody until June 26.
Price previously appeared at an out-of-sessions court hearing on Thursday night, charged with one count of rape, two counts of robbery and three counts of assault over the alleged Thursday crime spree.
Police allege he assaulted a 26-year-old man on a footbridge at 10:00am before stealing his mobile phone.
It is alleged he then attempted unsuccessfully to carjack a vehicle belonging to a 77-year-old man on McCracken Street before fleeing on foot.
Price is then accused of going into a business on Harvester Road about 11.20am where he approached a woman and allegedly became violent before physically and sexually assaulting her.
He was barefoot, handcuffed and wearing blue prison overalls.
The accused joked with the bail justice when he was asked whether he was born in 1952, a reference to an error on the court documents.
"I must look pretty good for my age," Price said.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, sexual-offences, courts-and-trials, doncaster-3108, melbourne-3000, albion-3020
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