An 83-year-old man has been charged with the cold case murders of two women in a Victorian hair salon in 1991.
Margaret Penny and Claire Acocks were found murdered at the Old London Coiffure Hairdressers in Portland in May, 1991.
The East Malvern man has been charged with two counts of murder and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates Court on Monday.
In 2006 police launched a cold case investigation into the murders that shocked the picturesque coastal town on the state's far southwest coast.
The women were stabbed to death and had their throats cut in the shampoo room of the salon in Bentinck Street, but police could not find a motive for the attack.
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A local man was interviewed over the murders in 1998 but no charges were laid.
Convicted serial killer and rapist Peter Dupas was cleared of the crime.
