William Vaeno, James Tafiti and Falefitu Tuimalealiifano fronted Griffith Local Court last week charged with destruction of property. 

The sculptures were damaged in the early hours of last Sunday October 15. 

One of the defendants allegedly admitted they had been drinking before the incident occured. 

Mr Vaeno and Mr Tuimaleaiifano each received $500 fines and Mr Tafiti was ordered to do 50 hours of community service. 

Musician Robert Fattore was alerted to the incident first thing on Sunday morning. He put out the call of Facebook for people to come and help. 

A group of about 25 volunteers then spent more than two hours fixing the sculptures, which were fully restored. 

Griffith mayor John Dal Broi and councillors Christine Stead and Brian Simpson were among the volunteers helping with the restoration. 

The Real Juice Citrus Sculptures is a popular annual Griffith festival attracting thousands of visitors each year. 

One of the men allegedly responsible for the destruction of Griffith’s citrus sculptures took to social media to apologise.

In a post made to a group called Griffith Community Notice Board, he said that “no words can fully express how sorry we are”. “

“First I would like to apologize for our negative and selfish behaviour early hours on Sunday Morning. We are currently taking Actions to help ourselves, and prevent this ever occuring again,” it read

“We don’t expect forgiveness this letter is not to excuse our actions. This is an especially disrespectful and inappropriate behaviour we have committed to the Griffith community and surrounding areas.

To those who went out of their way and time to clean up and put the orange sculpture back together, we deeply regret and sorry yous(sic) went through that from our stupidity.”