Facts continued to emerge yesterday from the ongoing national team drugs test saga which has blighted local football.

has learned that another Devonshire Cougars player, Domico Coddington, never took a second drug test nor was required to do so even though he had tested ?invalid? on the first test on the eve of Brazilian side Santos? tour of the Island last January.

Bermuda Council for Drug Free Sport (BCDS) documents obtained by , however, indicated that Coddington was one of four Cougars players asked to take a second test on January 28, 2005.

Coddington?s Cougars team-mates Heys Wolfe, Raymond Beach and Omar Butterfield also tested ?invalid? but were required to take a second test.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, a Devonshire Recreation Club official confirmed: ?Domico took a first test just like those other boys and the result came back the same, inconclusive. Domico never provided a second sample. He informed the club that he was never notified that he had to return to take a second test.?

Devonshire officials strongly feel their players have been treated unfairly.

?The perception at the club is that these boys were unfairly targeted and it also seems as though they brought in another player (Coddington) to make it appear otherwise,? added the official.

National coach Kyle Lightbourne also confirmed last night that Coddington never took a second test.

He said: ?There was never an issue about Domico (Coddington). There were four players (Kwame Steede, Butterfield, Wolfe and Beach) who were required to take a second test. They never tested positive but were asked to retake the test. All four of them had to retake the test but not Domico because he never tested positive. His sample was clear from the beginning and Domico never went back.?

Yet according to BCDS records ?Two of the four Cougars players who provided a second sample were found to be drug free ? Domico Coddington and Kwame Steede.?

BCDS official Cathy Belvedere declined to comment on the matter last night while BCDS chairman Jon Beard could not be reached for comment.

Beach, Wolfe and Butterfield all refused to turn up for a third drugs test on January 29 at the NSC and subsequently received suspensions ranging from one to three years from international and domestic football for their actions.

It was recently learned that Butterfield and Wolfe both tested negative for using illicit drugs, following analysis at the Government Laboratory ? results that contradicted earlier tests carried out by the drug testing agency Benedict Associates.

Tests from the same urine samples conducted by Government lab officials proved ?negative? for cocaine, cannabinoid and opiates in January last year after initial scans indicated that both players had tested positive for THC - the main chemical found in cannabis.

Both Wolfe and Butterfield have resumed playing after their bans were quashed last April on the grounds that drug testing methods were ?flawed? and they were never ?officially notified? by BCDS officials to attend a third test.

Beach, however, continues to serve out a three-year ban.

A second test from the prolific striker could not be sent to the Government lab for further analysis after he disposed of his urine sample and associated paperwork and stormed off in disgust ? actions that were later interpreted as an infraction.

It was also the second time Beach had contravened BCDS regulations, having done so previously in 1998 as a teenager.

The player?s case remains in the hands of the Ministry of Sports Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR) arbitration panel.

Devonshire officials contend BCDS chairman and Bermuda Football Association (BFA) executive Jon Beard?s and BCDS vice-president and ADR secretary Helena Rawlins? involvement in the long drawn out matter constitute a direct conflict of interest.

It was learned earlier that the Cougars trio had never signed a waiver subjecting them to take the mandatory national team drugs test in the first instance.