The man dramatically arrested after allegedly holing himself up in the toilet of a Frankton petrol station has pleaded not guilty to a raft of charges.

Forty year old Richard John Percival appeared in Invercargill District Court without legal representation this morning, and pleaded not guilty to eighteen charges.

They relate to an alleged crime spree across the South Island which ended on Saturday when he was arrested in Frankton.

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