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MP car-attack accused ‘has rare disorder’ · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from the Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the front's afternoon headlines. Brendan Nugent, the man accused of
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  Speaker 1: deliberately running over independent MP Helen Haynes with his car,
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  Speaker 1: has a rare neurological disorder. That's according to his lawyer,
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  Speaker 1: who didn't apply for bail when Nugent appeared in Wangaratta
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  Speaker 1: Magistrate's Court in country Victoria on Wednesday. Nugent, 43, is
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  Speaker 1: accused of using his four-wheel drive to deliberately attack Haynes,
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  Speaker 1: the independent MP for Indi, on Monday afternoon as she
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  Speaker 1: returned to her electorate office. Bystanders had to free Haynes,
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  Speaker 1: who was pinned by the vehicle. On Wednesday, defence lawyer
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  Speaker 1: Shirag Patel told Magistrate Alison Vaughan his client was suffering
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  Speaker 1: from a concussion and idiopathic transverse myelitis. That's a rare
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  Speaker 1: neurological disorder that causes sudden inflammation across the spinal cord,
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  Speaker 1: with no underlying cause. Patel said it was Nugent's first
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  Speaker 1: time in custody. Prince Harry wants to reconcile with the
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  Speaker 1: royals but says some people don't want that to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking on a GQ podcast, the Duke of Sussex said
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  Speaker 1: people often told him about their own family dramas and
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  Speaker 1: he felt they were looking to the royals to show
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  Speaker 1: how these problems can be worked out. Don't forget, Harry
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  Speaker 1: created some of the problems when he and wife Meghan
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  Speaker 1: gave an interview to Oprah Winfrey claiming racism in the
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  Speaker 1: royal family. And Harry published a book detailing his physical
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  Speaker 1: and other fights with Prince William. We've got some great
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  Speaker 1: analysis of that and all the rest of the world's
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