{"id":935255,"date":"2026-10-20T19:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T19:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/935255\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T19:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T19:04:17","slug":"australia-news-live-updates-helen-haines-loses-leg-after-attack-brendan-nugent-charged-over-car-ramming-that-left-independent-mp-critically-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/935255\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news LIVE UPDATES: Helen Haines loses leg after attack, Brendan Nugent charged over car ramming that left independent MP critically injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s what we know about the incident that left independent MP Helen Haines critically injured earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Brendan Nugent, 43, has been charged with three offences after Haines was repeatedly struck by a 4WD on the street outside her electorate office in Wangaratta on Monday.Haines lost a leg in the alleged attack and remains in a critical condition after being airlifted to a Melbourne hospital.Nugent faces charges of dangerous driving causing injury, intentionally causing injury and a federal offence of causing harm to a Commonwealth public official.Police searched Nugent\u2019s home in the rural Victorian township of Tarrawingee on Tuesday and allege that he carried out a targeted attack on Haines.Nugent remains in custody and will face Wangaratta Magistrates Court on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s what we know about the incident that left independent MP Helen Haines critically injured earlier this week.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":935256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-935255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935255","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=935255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/935256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}