TORONTO - A man accused of pushing two teens onto subway tracks in Toronto will be back before mental-health court on Friday.
Forty-seven-year-old Adenir De Oliveira appeared briefly today on charges of three counts of attempted murder and two of assault but did not speak.
The father of one of the teens whose foot was nicked by a train has called it "miraculous" no one was seriously hurt.
The incident occurred Friday at a west-end station, when a man approached five friends waiting for a train and shoved three of them.
Two ended up on the tracks and barely managed to scramble to safety.
The man was chased and gave up a short while later.
On Tuesday, justice of the peace Patrick Sheppard endorsed a prosecution request for a publication ban on the identities of the victims despite noting their names were already "all over the newspapers."
Sheppard refused to hear a request from a member of the media to consider objections to the ban.
"If somebody wants to attack this decision at a later time, they may do that," he said.
In a brief exchange with the prosecutor, Sheppard conceded the ban, originally granted Saturday, was applied under the wrong section of the Criminal Code and corrected the record.
