'Slightly different': Sensible Sentencing Trust to update attack ad over copyright issues

The Sensible Sentencing Trust has temporarily taken down digital billboards displaying the leaders of the Green and Labour parties with the line - 'Backing the Gangs'.

Greens, Labour and Te Pāti Māori candidates have met with gang members during the campaign, with the Labour candidate resigning in the fallout.

The Greens have lodged a complaint with the Advertising Standards Authority over the billboards.

The trust's spokesperson Louise Parsons says they'll be put back up tomorrow without images of the party leaders.

"They're the ones that started this, they're the ones that plastered their faces over the place with gang members - and so now they're upset by something that we've done."

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