Dozens of university students have showed up for the first court appearance for a man accused of dumping liquified feces on strangers in Toronto, where his case was put over to next week.
Samuel Opoku is charged with five counts each of assault with a weapon and mischief related to three alleged attacks _ two at campus libraries and a third at a downtown intersection near the University of Toronto.
The 23-year-old was arrested downtown on Tuesday night.
His case had to be moved to a larger courtroom to accommodate throngs of would-be onlookers, many of them students from U of T and elsewhere.
First-year student Tina Yang says curiosity drove her to the courtroom, and led her to wait several hours for the accused to appear.
She says she wants to get a sense of the reasons behind his alleged actions.