Updated: 20 October 2026, 23:27 AEDT (Sydney) Victoria Police charged a 43-year-old Tarrawingee man on Tuesday evening over the alleged vehicle attack that critically injured independent MP Helen Haines outside her Wangaratta office on Monday. The man, identified by ABC News as Brendan Nugent , faces dangerous driving causing serious injury, intentionally causing serious injury and the Commonwealth offence of causing harm to a Commonwealth public official. In a statement published at 7:39pm on Tuesday , police said he would be held overnight to appear at Wangaratta Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, 21 October. The charges are allegations and have not been determined by a court. Police allege a white Toyota LandCruiser struck Haines, 65, outside an office on Murphy Street at about 3:35pm on Monday, 19 October. They said the incident was targeted. A member of the public initially restrained the man before he was taken into custody at about 3:40pm. Detectives searched a property on Great A...