A Barrytown man failed to persuade a judge that police had forged a photograph in order to prove his motorbike had strayed over the centre line.
Police photographed Grant David Crook on his machine as it crossed the centre line on a bend near Punakaiki on December 22, 2011.
Crook was stopped and told he would be getting a ticket in the mail. He asked for a copy of the photograph, and when it arrived he decided that it depicted a different bend to the one he had been stopped on, so concluded the police must have super-imposed a picture of his machine on the bend.
Supporting this theory, he said, was the fact that the photo was not stamped with a time and date.
Sentencing Crook in Greymouth District Court, Judge Paul Kellar dismissed the claim but said he accepted that Crook had given honest, but mistaken, evidence.
