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“This is a one-strike-and-you’re-out case. But I don’t think that’s going to happen. In fact, I wouldn’t have made the submission I made today as counsel if I thought that was going to happen,” said Opoku’s lawyer, Jordan Weisz, outside court.

“We were very, very careful to ensure that the conditions not only provided safety to the community and public, but were also conditions that could be understood.”

Police arrested Opoku on Nov. 26 in connection with three separate attacks involving buckets allegedly containing what has been described as liquified fecal matter.

On Friday Nov. 22, a man dumped a bucket of feces on two people studying at Robarts Library. Two days later, a similar attack took place 20 kilometres away, at York University’s Scott Library in the city’s north end. A third attack took place the following day. A man threw a bucket full of liquified feces at a woman in front of 160 College St. at the southern edge of the U of T campus.

Photo by Toronto Police

Opoku is charged with five counts each of assault with a weapon and mischief interfere with property.

His lawyer said outside court that he will be considering a not criminally responsible defence, but still has to review all the evidence.

“My responsibility as counsel is to ensure that the public continues to be protected and my client is able to access the resources he so desperately requires,” Weisz said, adding that the mental health court will be better able to monitor his client’s compliance with his bail conditions.

“We’re careful. We’re members of the public, too.”