Hamilton nightclub, according to an undercover Police officer.

And a former Miss Bermuda also claimed Scandal nightclub lived up to its name when the dancers performed simulated sexual acts with members of the audience.

Dancers from the audience "pushed their genitals toward the faces'' of women and one dancer simulated sex with an "embarrassed'' visitor on the stage in front of some 100 people.

Details of the rude capers in Scandal, on Front Street, in March, 1992, were revealed in Magistrates' Court yesterday.

Former promotions manager Dennis Carter is charged with allowing an indecent performance to take place at the club, which closed earlier this year.

Carter denies the offence and is defending himself. Crown Counsel Mr. Steve Harrison is prosecuting.

Former Miss Bermuda Andrea Sullivan, of Southampton, told the court she was disgusted by the performance. Law student Sullivan said she had been in Scandal to meet friends.

Undercover Police officer W.Pc. Ivy Roberts said Carter spoke to five or six "judges'' from the audience. He was wearing a T-Shirt with an erect penis design on its front. After the conversation, three of the judges walked away and three more women were chosen.

The show began with Wayne Patrick Frost dancing, wearing a suit and shoes but no socks or shirt. He stripped down to underwear. Sullivan said: "He was dancing in an erotic manner. He danced up to the judges pushing his genitals toward their faces. He got closer than I would have liked.

"He pulled a girl out of the audience, laid a towel on the dance floor and motioned her to lay on the towel. Then he straddled his legs and did push-ups going down on her like simulated sex.

"The girl was laughing nervously and she did not look as though she was enjoying herself. She seemed embarrassed.'' W.Pc. Roberts claimed the woman attempted to get free but the man pushed her down and continued until the music stopped.

Frost was followed by an American visitor, who stripped to his underwear, and another act involving Sullivan's friends Zengi Ingham and Bryant Richards.

Neither act involved any simulated sexual acts.

The final act involved a black man and a Portuguese man who stripped from robes to G-strings to the song "Let's Talk About Sex''.

Again the witness claimed the judges were approached by the dancers who climbed onto the chairs and thrust their groins into their faces. W.Pc.

Roberts said: "Some of the judges pushed themselves to the backs of their seats and one walked off the dance floor. They looked shocked.'' She added that the dancers then approached a woman in the audience and straddled her from the front and rear.

Sullivan said: "I was disgusted by the whole thing. I have seen a strip show but no way did the stripper push himself on anybody. Nobody came forward to stop this performance.'' Former general manager at Scandal, Albert Eastman said the "Male Dance Contest'' was one of a number of events organised by the club for College Weeks in March. Eastman said: "This is a fun event, it is spontaneous. If there is not enough of an audience the event may not take place.'' Carter asked Sullivan if she had been so disgusted with the event why she stayed until the end. She said she was waiting for friends.

Addressing W.Pc. Roberts, he said: "When you were watching Frost push the woman down when she wanted to get up, why, as a Police officer, did you not intervene?'' She replied: "I was not there for that. I was there to observe.'' In a statement, Carter said his advice to contestants was to keep it clean and not to expose themselves.

A fortnight earlier a US marine had exposed himself during the act. Carter said: "His G-string was too small and it slipped to the side momentarily. I pointed to him and told him his thing had come out. It did not stop the show.'' Carter said he had not seen the simulated sex by Frost. He said he was sorry to hear he had upset a member of the public and the rules would be changed.

The case will continue in October when Carter will put his defence to Magistrate the Wor. Cheryl-Ann Mapp.