A man faces multiple charges after evading police for days after allegedly attacking his family with an axe, AAP reports.
Peter O’Ryan was at his family’s home in Tyers, in Victoria’s east, on Saturday when an argument broke out just after midday, police allege. He then allegedly attacked his brother with an axe before turning on his elderly parents.
O’Ryan’s father, 77, and brother, 47, were airlifted to hospital with life-threatening injuries and are now in a stable condition.
O’Ryan was arrested on Tuesday night after police were called about a man suspiciously loitering around Tyers-Walhalla Road, near where the attack happened in the small Gippsland town of Tyers.
O’Ryan was charged with three counts of intentionally causing serious injury, police said.
The 48-year-old refused to leave the cells when his case was called in La Trobe Valley magistrates court on Wednesday.
In his absence, the magistrate remanded O’Ryan in custody and noted management issues including paranoid schizophrenia, panic and anxiety disorder, and depression.
The maximum penalty for the charges is 20 years in prison.