{"id":145372,"date":"2025-11-20T21:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T21:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/145372\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T21:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T21:43:06","slug":"six-charged-over-destiny-church-pride-library-storytime-protest-can-now-be-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/145372\/","title":{"rendered":"Six charged over Destiny Church Pride library storytime protest can now be named"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">In March, Community Magistrate Fenella Thomas granted interim name suppression to one defendant, a teenager, citing her age. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">The 19-year-old continues to have name suppression.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">French and Mann have both pleaded not guilty and elected a jury trial, which has been set down for next October.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Bryan French at Waitakere District Court - one of the seven people charged with offences following a Destiny Church-linked protest during a drag event at an Auckland community centre last month. Photo \/ Michael Craig.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Bryan French at Waitakere District Court &#8211; one of the seven people charged with offences following a Destiny Church-linked protest during a drag event at an Auckland community centre last month. Photo \/ Michael Craig.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Bryan French, 67, is charged with indecent assault, two counts of assault under the Summary Offences Act and one count of assault under the Crimes Act.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Hector Gardiner, 55, in his first appearance at Waitakere District Court. One of the seven people charged with offences following a Destiny Church-linked protest during a drag event at an Auckland community centre. Photo \/ Michael Craig\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Hector Gardiner, 55, in his first appearance at Waitakere District Court. One of the seven people charged with offences following a Destiny Church-linked protest during a drag event at an Auckland community centre. Photo \/ Michael Craig<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Hector Gardiner, 55, faces charges of assault.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Campbell Harvey, 47, in his first appearance at Waitakere District Court. One of the seven people charged with offences following a Destiny Church-linked protest during a drag event at an Auckland community centre. Photo \/ Michael Craig\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Campbell Harvey, 47, in his first appearance at Waitakere District Court. One of the seven people charged with offences following a Destiny Church-linked protest during a drag event at an Auckland community centre. Photo \/ Michael Craig<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Campbell Harvey, 47, was charged with assault.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Phineas Mann, 44, at his first appearance at Waitakere District Court. One of the seven people charged with offences following a Destiny Church-linked protest during a drag event at an Auckland community centre. Photo \/ Michael Craig\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Phineas Mann, 44, at his first appearance at Waitakere District Court. One of the seven people charged with offences following a Destiny Church-linked protest during a drag event at an Auckland community centre. Photo \/ Michael Craig<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Phineas Mann, 44, has been accused of injures with intent.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Tianarangi Robinson, 28, at her first appearance at Waitakere District Court. One of the seven people charged with offences following a Destiny Church-linked protest during a drag event at an Auckland community centre. Photo \/ Michael Craig\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Tianarangi Robinson, 28, at her first appearance at Waitakere District Court. One of the seven people charged with offences following a Destiny Church-linked protest during a drag event at an Auckland community centre. Photo \/ Michael Craig<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Tianarangi Robinson, 28, was charged with two counts of assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Karen Robinson, 50, was charged with assault, and the 19-year-old woman was charged with one count of assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">The protest elicited criticism from both Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown and Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, who said the church went \u201ctoo far\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Jaime Lyth is a multimedia journalist for the New Zealand Herald, focusing on crime and breaking news. Lyth began working under the NZ Herald masthead in 2021 as a reporter for the Northern Advocate in Whang\u0101rei. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In March, Community Magistrate Fenella Thomas granted interim name suppression to one defendant, a teenager, citing her age.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,5195,198,13239,12897,97748,12896,5504,42,670,10136,43,425,1523,384,55233,25394,202,4739,97747,40,38,41,39,20424],"class_list":["post-145372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-auckland","tag-be","tag-can","tag-charged","tag-church","tag-churchlinked","tag-destiny","tag-following","tag-headlines","tag-library","tag-named","tag-news","tag-now","tag-over","tag-people","tag-pride","tag-protest","tag-seven","tag-six","tag-storytime","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-violent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}