{"id":936429,"date":"2026-10-22T03:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T03:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/936429\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T03:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T03:30:11","slug":"helen-haines-attack-live-updates-indi-mp-loses-both-legs-husband-confirms-vigil-held-in-wodonga-more-details-emerge-about-alleged-attacker-brendan-nugents-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/936429\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Haines attack live updates: Indi MP loses both legs, husband confirms; vigil held in Wodonga; more details emerge about alleged attacker Brendan Nugent\u2019s past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Labor candidate in Victoria\u2019s state election has shared a threatening letter sent to him, calling for the threats to stop.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"David Sun\u2019s post on Facebook.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1f39f0e84693e8cd269300a65a8b328d724cf24a54f885105a03afd166972639.png\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 jvMZxu\"\/>David Sun\u2019s post on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>David Sun, who is trying to win the seat of Kew away from Opposition Leader Jess Wilson, told the suburb\u2019s community Facebook group he recently received the anonymous letter, which contained two short, disturbing statements: \u201cI know where you live\u201d and \u201cI know where your children go to school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sun told the group while he was aware of the scrutiny and criticism being a political candidate entailed, the threats crossed a line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not about Labor, Liberal or Independent politics. It is about basic human decency,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnough is enough, threats against my family must stop.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Labor candidate in Victoria\u2019s state election has shared a threatening letter sent to him, calling for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":936430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-936429","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\/936429","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=936429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}