passengers was described as being very drunk by a fellow worker during a trial in Magistrates' Court this week.

The accused, a cruise ship bartender, has denied breaking and entering three passengers' cabins aboard the Meridian and sexually assaulting two women and a 12-year-old girl during the early hours of the morning on August 3.

Eric Unaha Remora -- who is a bar waiter on the cruise ship -- told the court the accused was in his cabin around 1.30 a.m. and he was not wearing a uniform.

Earlier in the trial, one of the victims testified that the person in her room was wearing a uniform.

Under cross examination by Crown Counsel Miss Charlene Scott, Remora admitted the accused was drunk.

"I had never seen him in that state before. It was strange to see him like that,'' Remora said, adding that the accused "just seemed different''.

Juan M. Gommez, a member of the ship crew's dining room staff, testified, through the aid of interpreter Lucy Brums, that he saw the accused and another white male walk pass the crew's dining room about 20 minutes after he began work at 5.45 a.m.

Defence lawyer Mr. Rod Attride-Stirling asked Gommez if he remembered whether the man with the accused was dressed.

"Yes, he was dressed,'' Gommez said.

The man Mr. Attride-Stirling referred to was the 21-year-old brother of the 12-year-old victim from New York.

Her brother testified on October 12 that he was only dressed in boxer shorts when he took the accused to the security area.

Guest relations manager Sonja M. Grueer described for the court the general lighting in the cabins and the hallways.

Grueer was followed by Captain Zissi Koskios who told Acting Magistrate the Wor. Kenneth Brown about the master keys to the passengers' cabins.

The captain said the chief steward was responsible for the master keys.

"There's a locker in the chief stewards' office and the cabin stewards have copies of these master keys,'' he said.