Man charged over targeted car attack on MP Helen Haines

Man charged over targeted car attack on MP Helen Haines

Brendan Nugent, forty-three, faces charges including intentionally causing serious injury after allegedly driving a car into independent Australian MP Helen Haines outside her electorate office in Wangaratta, Victoria. Haines, who lost a leg in the attack, remains in critical but stable condition in hospital as police describe the incident as deliberate and targeted.

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