By Joanne Naish on Stuff…
A man has pleaded guilty to an anti-Semitic and homophobic attack on a pink church on the West Coast.
The church – named Gloria – on Packer’s Quay in Blaketown, Greymouth, is owned by poet and artist Sam Duckor-Jones and is a public artwork and “a temple of non-denominational queer celebration”.
It was scrawled with anti-Semitic and homophobic messages, including a death threat, on June 2.
A rainbow flag staked on the front lawn was also set alight.
Dillan Jay Pattinson, 20, pleaded guilty to one charge of intentional damage in the Greymouth District Court on Wednesday.
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