UPDATE, MONDAY 12pm: A 35-year-old Maiden Gully man has faced the Bendigo Magistrates' Court via video link on nine charges relating to the stabbing of a man in Maiden Gully on Saturday night.
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Dwayne Williams was charged with false imprisonment, intentionally causing injury and recklessly causing injury after he allegedly stabbed his father twice about 7.45pm on Saturday.
The court heard Williams requires treatment for his schizophrenia while in custody.
Williams did not apply for bail and was remanded in custody to appear at the Bendigo Magistrates' Court on May 12.
SUNDAY: Bendigo police deployed a taser to subdue a man who stabbed his father twice in Maiden Gully.
Sergeant Jason Bourke said the 35-year-old man had assaulted his uncle before the man's father broke the fight up at about 7.45pm on Saturday night.
The man's father received a minor wound to his chest and stab wound to the leg.
"On arrival the man had his father on the ground with a knife to his throat," Sergeant Bourke said.
"He refused to listen to police instructions and used his father as a shield. Police activated two taser but only one was deployed."
The father and uncle we taken to Bendigo Health, stablised and released.
The man was remanded in an out-of-sessions hearing on Saturday night. He will face court on Monday.
