Six people charged with offences connected to the rainbow crossing in Gladstone Rd, Gisborne in the city centre pleaded not guilty in Gisborne District Court today.
The alleged offences relate to incidents on separate dates last month.
Leighton Packer, 45, is jointly charged with Ernest Murray Packer, 46, Wayne Pohatu, 50, and Christopher Robert Fawcett, with intentionally damaging (by painting over it) a rainbow street painting belonging to Gisborne District Council on March 25.
Leighton and Ernest Packer are jointly charged with William Montgomery Gosset Grace, 54, and James Stanley Mikara, 45, of preparing to commit an imprisonable offence in the same location on March 27.
