What we know about the attack on Helen Haines

20 Oct 2026 · 3:05

Episode What we know about the attack on Helen Haines

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Shock waves are still reverberating through the community of Independent MP Helen Haines after a horror attack on Monday.

The 65-year-old has lost a leg after being rammed by a car outside her electorate office in Wangaratta in north east Victoria and remains in a Melbourne hospital in a critical but stable condition.

Police allege 43 year old Brendan Nugent was driving the vehicle that struck Helen Haines

He's been charged with dangerous driving causing serious injury, intentionally causing serious injury and the commonwealth offence of causing harm to a commonwealth public official.

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