Brendan Nugent Denied Bail Over Haines Car Attack

Brendan Nugent Denied Bail Over Haines Car Attack

A magistrate refuses bail for Brendan Nugent, accused of deliberately striking independent Australian MP Helen Haines twice with a car outside her electorate office in Wangaratta. Haines lost a leg and remained in critical but stable condition after surgery, while police described the attack as targeted and said they had no intelligence predicting it.

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