father, a court heard yesterday.

During the second day of the Magistrates' Court trial of Shawn Riley, both Riley and his father, Richard Greene, testified that a brown twist of heroin found behind Riley's ear belonged to Greene.

Riley, 21, of Beacon Hill Road, Sandys, was one of seven local football players who pleaded "no contest'' to drug charges in Miami last year.

He now denies the charge of possessing heroin.

The heroin was found after Police arrested Riley on August 18 on suspicion of cycle theft.

But yesterday Riley, represented by Mr. Archibald Warner, told the court the heroin belonged to his father who was a drug addict.

Riley said he was at home painting with his father and friends on the morning in question and he only left his house to get a pitcher of drink from his grandmother who lived next door.

As he returned to his home, Riley said he met P.c. Simon Payne who asked him what he was doing there.

"I told him I stayed next door and that I had come to get some drink from my granny. He asked me my name and address which I gave him,'' he said.

Riley then returned home and went to the bathroom where he discovered a brown paper twist.

He added that he had never seen the twist before and that he took it out to the kitchen and showed it to his friend Eugene Smith.

Riley said he then opened the brown twist and saw a "couple of pieces of foil paper'.

"I didn't count them and I didn't know where it came from but I had a feeling that it was my father's because no one else in the house uses drugs,'' he said.

He told the court he planned to confront his father about the twist, so he put it behind his ear because he had no pockets.

Riley said P.c. Payne came to his house about a half an hour later and arrested him on suspicion of cycle theft.

P.c. Payne found the twist behind Riley's ear during a drug search at the Somerset Police Station.

Under cross-examination by Police prosecutor Sgt. Kendrick James, Riley said he only assumed that the twist contained drugs and that he never opened the foil papers.

Riley said he told P.c. Payne that the substance in the twist did not belong to him, but he admitted that he did not tell the officer it belonged to his father.

However, Riley's father told the court the drugs belonged to him.

He said he had four decks of heroin in the twist and that he went in the bathroom to use one of them but found he had forgotten his syringes and other drug equipment.

He said he realised he was missing the twist when he arrived at his home in Pembroke but that he did not know where it had been left.

Later that afternoon, Greene said he was informed that Riley had been arrested for drug offences and was told to contact Riley's mother.

"I didn't get in touch with his mother immediately because something had happened in the past,'' he said.

Under cross-examination, Greene said he had left cocaine at Riley's mother's home before and she had flushed it down the toilet and confronted him about it.

The case resumes next Friday before the Wor. Edward King.