trying to collect his sick daughter from nursery was found not guilty on all counts, in Magistrates' Court on Friday.

Senior Magistrate the Wor. Will Francis said he rejected the statements made by the officer and stated that there was "wrongful anger on both sides resulting in an ugly incident.'' Last month, Gregory Wright, 37, of Spicery Lane, Warwick denied threatening a Police officer with an offensive weapon namely a helmet, resisting arrest, assaulting an officer, and using offensive behaviour.

He told the court 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 he was unable to find a parking space, 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 he saw an officer writing him a ticket.

"I removed the ticket from my windshield and slapped it on the inside of the officer's motorcycle windshield,'' Wright told the court.

But the officer then returned the ticket back to him which he refused. P.c.

Philip Lewis told the court that Wright threatened him twice with a crash helmet. However, Wright said he had only threatened once because he had no regard for his situation.

Senior Magistrate the Wor. Will Francis said he rejected P.c. Lewis' statement.

"The question is what was P.c. Lewis' duty. He confused the law regarding parking tickets with traffic and speeding offences.

"A ticket issued for speeding is a summons and you can't refuse to take it.

However, a parking ticket is a notice, and it is not an offence to refuse it,'' Mr. Francis said.

He added: "The officer had done his duty, he had no others to do. All the rest that took place after he issued the ticket resulted from the officer also heating up in anger.'' Mr. Francis fined Wright $20 for the unpaid parking ticket.

HORRIBLE FIND -- Danielle Taylor, 12, Serena Crockwell, 11, Kristina Crockwell, nine, and Naomi Little, 12 all of St. David's look sadly on as they ponder the fate of this small dog they found tied to a concrete block at the bottom of the sea.