Man charged with ramming Australian MP Helen Haines is to face court as his father calls her a family friend
Brendan Nugent, 43, of Tarrawingee, is charged with intentionally causing serious injury, dangerous driving causing serious injury and harming a Commonwealth official. He is due before Wangaratta Magistrates' Court on Wednesday. Haines, 65, has lost a leg and surgeons are fighting to save the other. His father Rod Nugent said Haines had been 'our friend for more than 20 years'.
Witnesses say the 4x4 made a U-turn and rammed Haines against a car twice.
Barber Ricky Jefferies dragged Nugent from the LandCruiser and found a flick knife.
Haines followed an X account in Nugent's name that called itself 'pro-Gaza'.
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