A defence lawyer yesterday called the case against a father who double parked as he rushed to collect his sick daughter from nursery an "utter fabrication''.

Gregory Wright, 37, of Spicery Lane has denied charges of threatening a Police officer with an offensive weapon -- a crash helmet -- resisting arrest, assaulting a Police officer, and using offensive behaviour.

Wright said that on March 14 he rushed to the Little Lamb Nursery on Dundonald Street to collect his sick three-year-old daughter and take her to the hospital.

Because there was nowhere to park, he said he parked on a double line across the street from the nursery.

When he came out with his daughter and her crash helmet, Wright said a Police officer was writing him a ticket.

The court heard Wright removed the ticket from his windshield and slapped it on the inside of the officer's motorcycle windshield.

The officer then returned and tried to give him back the ticket which he refused.

P.c. Philip Lewis said Wright threatened him twice with a crash helmet.

But Wright only admitted doing this once because he said the police officer showed no regard for his situation.

And yesterday Wright's lawyer Mr. Mark Diel, during summations, said: "There is not the slightest shred of doubt that to all intents and purposes the prosecution case is a complete and utter fabrication.'' Mr. Diel pointed out that although P.c. Lewis said the helmet was in the front seat with Wright, three defence witnesses stated that it was in the back with the child.

"A threat from a seated person to someone outside the car to hit him with a helmet in the back seat is hardly a threat,'' said Mr. Diel.

He also pointed out that to refuse a parking ticket from a Police officer was not an offence and neither was slapping it on the Police motorcycle.

He said P.c. Lewis' claim that one of the ladies from the nursery came over and said she would take care of the little girl was a "blatant attempt to manufacture evidence''.

He said both witness Ms Dorothy Nisbett and the child's teacher Ms Carolyn Lambe denied ever speaking to a Police officer about the care of the "hysterical'' child.

But Police prosecutor Sgt. Rex Osborne said: "A Police officer's job is not often easily done.

"It is sometimes easier to arrest someone charged with murder and grievous bodily harm than for a traffic matter.'' He pointed out that the child's teacher had not thought it necessary for her to go to the hospital, and the child showed no visible signs of illness.

He questioned why Wright took the time to slap the ticket on the windshield when he was in a hurry to go to the hospital.

"Had he accepted the parking ticket, he would not be here today,'' Sgt.

Osborne said.

The trial resumes on August 25 before Senior Magistrate the Wor. Will Francis.