LONDON, Ont. - Six men pleaded not guilty Tuesday to eight counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of eight men connected to the Bandidos biker gang.

It took 10 minutes to read all the charges and hear the pleas from Wayne Kellestine, 59, and Frank Mather, 35, of Dutton-Dunwich, Ont.; Brett Gardiner, 24, of no fixed address; and Michael Sandham, 39, Marcelo Aravena, 32, and Dwight Mushey, 41, all of Winnipeg.

"Eight men were shot dead one by one," Crown attorney Kevin Gowdey said during his opening statement.

"Good or bad, nice guys or not, they didn't deserve that," Gowdey said shortly after the 12th juror was picked after a weeks-long selection process.

The photos of the victims were mounted on a poster board in the courtroom near the jury that would hear how they died.

George Jessome, 52; George Kriarakis, 28; Luis Manny Raposo, 41; Frank Salerno, 43, all of Toronto; John Muscedere, 48, of Chatham, Ont.; Paul Sinopoli, 30, of Sutton, Ont.; Jamie Flanz, 37, of Keswick, Ont.; and Michael Trotta, 31, of Mississauga, Ont., were all connected to the Bandidos motorcycle club.

All of them had nicknames -- Chopper, Boxer, Crash, Pony, Big Paulie, Bam Bam, Little Mikey and Goldberg.

Each died from gunshots, their bodies left in vehicles along a quiet southwestern Ontario road, near London.

All of them were ensnared in a longtime biker feud that pitted brother against brother to the death, court heard.

The first public glimpse of what happened on April 8, 2006, was told to a hushed courtroom during Gowdey's two-hour statement of what the Crown hopes to prove.

The jury heard, along with the details of the feud, that it will hear from a police informant, known as M.H., who will testify to being at Kellestine's Dutton-Dunwich farm when the eight men were shot to death.

Gowdey presented a case that sounded like a pulp fiction novel, starting with the grisly discovery of the bodies along the road.

Mary and Russell Steele, who live near Shedden, Ont., were alerted by a friend that Saturday morning that there were vehicles on their property that didn't belong there.

The Steeles went to look, Gowdey said, and saw a car on the road and a tow truck with a silver car attached to it. A fourth vehicle was in a nearby field.

The Steeles didn't look inside the vehicles and called police.

An Ontario Provincial Police officer looked in the car in the field and saw a man with blood on his face. He wasn't breathing.

The officer opened the car's hatch door. A man was lying on his right side, bleeding from the head, dead. A third dead man was in the back seat.

Five more men would be found in the vehicles.

Two were in the silver car, one was in the trunk wrapped in a carpet. Another man was dead in the tow truck.

The eighth man was in the back seat of the second car.

"Murder was obvious from the beginning," Gowdey said.

At the heart of the case, Gowdey said, was a feud between the Toronto Bandidos, and the group's international headquarters in Texas.

Winnipeg had a fledgling chapter that wanted to become a full chapter. It was under the control of Toronto, and there were conflicts between them because Toronto claimed Winnipeg was not paying its dues and Toronto didn't support full chapter status.

All of the dead men and Kellestine belonged to the Toronto chapter, Gowdey said, and Kellestine was the only one supporting Winnipeg.

By 2006, the world headquarters wanted its patches -- a biker symbol of belonging and power -- back.

"It was a time of crisis," Gowdey said. "If Toronto was done, Winnipeg was done too."

Sandham set up a meeting with members of the world headquarters at the Peace Arch Park in White Rock, B.C.

At the end of the March 2006 meeting, Kellestine was national president of the Bandidos. But he had orders to pull the patches of the Toronto chapter -- something "that would not be surrendered willingly," Gowdey said.

The victims were invited to the Kellestine farm, Gowdey said.

Each of the men was taken outside at gunpoint, placed in a vehicle, then shot.

The executions took hours.

"There was no gun fight, there was no flurry of bullets," Gowdey said. "One by one, the victims were led to their deaths."

Not everyone shot and killed someone, but "everyone contributed," he said.