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One week after Musab A-Noor was spotted standing in the cold near a set of train tracks in Ottawa’s south end and arrested in the killing of his two sisters, the 29-year-old has yet to step foot in a courtroom to face the charges.

Since the night he was arrested, there have been growing concerns about the accused’s mental health, and on Friday the court ordered the man to undergo an assessment by a psychiatrist at the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre.

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After he missed a fourth court appearance, defence lawyer Samir Adam told the judge that A-Noor was in a “catatonic state” when he visited him in hospital this week.

On Dec. 16, about 15 minutes before he was apprehended by Ottawa police under the Mental Health Act, A-Noor was standing with his hands in his pockets around 11 p.m., about 500 metres from the crime scene on McCarthy Road.

His two sisters, Asma, 32, and Nasiba, 29, had been found earlier that night in a home with fatal stab wounds, police said.