A man sentenced to 13 years in prison for possession of more than $500,000 worth of heroin with intent to supply has had his appeal rejected.

Anthony Eugene Seymour, 39, admitted in March this year to ingesting 18 pellets of heroin, weighing 112.81 grams, with the aim of selling it in Florida.

Defence counsel Craig Attridge argued before the Court of Appeal that Seymour had no case to answer under Bermuda law, because he intended to sell the drugs abroad and the charge of possession with intent to supply did not come under the jurisdiction of the local courts.

However, the Court upheld the original verdict, and in a written judgment yesterday said that when the intent to supply is ?formed? in Bermuda, it is of no consequence whether the drug is going to be sold on the Island or not.

?For these reasons we hold that the trial judge was not wrong to refuse the ?no case to answer? submission? of the defence,? the judgment said.

Seymour had claimed that he saw a man place a brown paper bag under a trash can on Court Street ? before retrieving the bag and taking it back to his house to investigate it?s contents.

Upon discovering the heroin wrapped in pellets, he decided to ingest them and book a plane ticket to Florida, where is wife lives.

Two days afterwards he became ill, began vomiting violently, and was forced to undergo two emergency operations to remove the pellets at King Edward Memorial Hospital.

?I felt so stupid,? he said. ?I thought I was going to die and I hadn?t thought for one minute about the consequences of my actions.?