{"id":934897,"date":"2026-10-20T12:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934897\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T12:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:04:12","slug":"brendan-nugent-facing-three-charges-over-alleged-attack-on-mp-helen-haines-helen-haines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934897\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Nugent facing three charges over alleged attack on MP Helen Haines | Helen Haines"},"content":{"rendered":"

Helen Haines\u2019 alleged attacker, Brendan Nugent, has been charged with dangerous driving causing serious injury, intentionally cause serious injury and the commonwealth offence of causing harm to a commonwealth public official.<\/p>\n

He will be held overnight to appear at Wangaratta magistrates court on Wednesday, Victoria police confirmed in a statement, adding that it would be alleged the attack was targeted.<\/p>\n

Victoria police arrested the 43-year-old Tarrawingee man on Monday afternoon after he allegedly struck the independent MP for Indi with a Toyota LandCruiser outside her electorate office in Wangaratta in northern Victoria<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Haines remains in a critical but stable condition after being airlifted to Melbourne\u2019s Alfred hospital for emergency surgery. She has lost one leg and surgeons were fighting on Tuesday to save the other leg.<\/p>\n

Police also said in the statement released late on Tuesday that one of its highway patrol officers responded to the incident only eight seconds after emergency services were called.<\/p>\n

They confirmed that a search warrant had been executed that morning at Nugent\u2019s Great Alpine Road property.<\/p>\n

\u201cVictoria Police will continue to maintain an enhanced presence in Wangaratta, including members from the Public Order Response Team who have deployed to the area.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAt this stage it appears this is an isolated incident, and there are currently no other known threats connected to this matter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Helen Haines\u2019 alleged attacker, Brendan Nugent, has been charged with dangerous driving causing serious injury, intentionally cause serious…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-934897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}