stand yesterday on the third day of his Supreme Court trial.

He told the court how he was "not an angel growing up.'' And he admitted he had several convictions for fighting when younger but none were for sexual offences.

In 1985, he said he was sent to prison for 12 years, and served six years. He was paroled on condition that he kept out of trouble.

The man said he first met his alleged daughter when she was five or six years old and had a general, fatherly relationship with her and the other children who were living at the foster home.

He admitted that he had sex with the woman's mother in 1968. He said he also knew she was pregnant and had a baby girl later that year because he saw her on Court Street.

He said: "I asked her (sarcastically) if that baby was mine. She told me to `f*** off. This baby ain't yours'.

"I heard her state for the first time in this court that I was the father.

"I was told she came to Casemates and said the baby belonged to Winslow Durrant (another inmate). He can attest to this.'' Earlier, Det. Con. Christopher Graham-Ward told the court that the defendant had said the allegations were absurd and denied the woman was his daughter, though he admitted that they had a father-daughter relationship.

Reading from a statement Det. Con. Graham-Ward reported the defendant as having said that his alleged daughter was desperate because she had nowhere to go. He had earlier asked her to leave because she was not contributing to the home. The defendant said he had numerous sexual relations with his alleged daughter starting in April, 1991.

He said they had sex in the car, at Long Bay and on the Railway tracks. The defendant said that on the morning of February 15 his alleged daughter arrived home around 4.45 a.m.

He said she lay down beside him and they "did their thing'' as they had numerous times before.

The trial continues today.