TORONTO

The woman accused in the fatal stabbing of a newlywed in the PATH system late last year will undergo a psychiatric assessment.

Standing in a green baggy sweatshirt, matching pants and black and white sneakers in the prisoner’s box in Mental Health court at Old City Hall on Friday, Rohinie Bisesar went on another rant lasting several minutes about terrorism and conspiracy theories as her lawyer, Calvin Barry, implored the court to consider her for a fitness assessment.

“I have no mental health problems,” Bisesar, 41, told the court. “I am innocent of this crime. Someone put something foreign in my mind.”

Barry said Bisesar was very recently in Oakville Hospital and exhibited “bizarre” behaviour at Vanier Centre For Women including hearing voices in her head. She is to meet with a psychiatrist at the Centre for Mental Health and Addiction on Tuesday before returning to court on May 4.

Bisesar is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Rosemarie Junor.

Junor, 28, died in hospital after being stabbed at a Shopper’s Drug Mart in the PATH system on Dec. 16.

Last week, Bisesar recited a similar diatribe in court about terrorism before missing two subsequent court appearances because she was hospitalized.

On Friday, she disrupted court to request another lawyer. After Justice Ronald Boivin attempted to quiet her, she continued her calm, but irrational rant, and he told Barry and the Crown to talk over her.

“I would like you to do a body scan first — then do the psychiatric thing. You’re wasting time ... He’s covering his ass. I have three (business) degrees.”

Bisesar then shifted topics and urged the government to unleash its plan to counter terrorism.

“Some experiment has gone wrong,” she said. “I would like some communication. Even if it’s behind closed doors, I’d like for them to confess ... It can move small aspects of me. It feels what I feel, it hears what I hear. Calvin is hiding something. Could you not treat this as terrorism?”

“You lied to me to come here,” Bisesar said before being escorted out by court officers.

A report will be available at the next scheduled court date from CAMH, Barry said, which may say she’s fit to stand trial or may say more investigation is required. Bisesar also has access to a psychiatrist at Vanier.

“When she made that rant last week we had our psychiatrist and the team to see where we were,” Barry told reporters outside of court. “Obviously, you have to be fit in a number of facets to be in court, to take instructions from your counsel and to be able to know the rules of the prosecutor, the judge and the defence. We question that obviously because (of) what she was saying today and what she said last week.”

jyuen@postmedia.com