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VICTORIA POLICE LAY CHARGES
A 43-year-old man has been charged by Victoria Police after independent MP Helen Haines was hit by a car outside her electorate office in Wangaratta.
In a statement last night, police said the man had been charged with “dangerous driving causing serious injury, intentionally causing serious injury and the Commonwealth offence of causing harm to a Commonwealth public official”.
He is due to appear at Wangaratta Magistrates’ Court later today.
In the statement, police said they “will allege the incident was targeted”.