importing $160,000 worth of cannabis into Bermuda.

Maintaining her innocence to the end, Cole, 21, who is three months pregnant, was led away to begin serving her sentence.

Puisne Judge the Hon. Mr. Justice Ground said he took her age, psychiatric history and circumstances into account but he said she had shown no real remorse.

He chided Cole of Hollis Avenue, Queen's, New York, for wasting opportunities that were presented to her because of her mother's -- reggae star Judy Mowatt -- fame, but he said he was also minded not to impose a sentence that would crush her.

Her mother was absent from the court yesterday and on Monday when the unanimous guilty verdict was delivered. She had previously attended each day of the trial which began on June 22.

Mowatt performed last year at the Culture Shock reggae concert in Somerset.

The drugs were discovered in a black and grey suitcase after Cole arrived on an American Airlines flight from New York on September 17, 1994. They were concealed in ten plastic packages wrapped in duct tape and fabric softener.

Cole's lawyer Mr. Richard Hector said his client was "a child in a woman's body'' who bought the drugs into Bermuda without any thought of financial gain.

He said she was in need of psychiatric care and had been the victim of parental neglect since her father left the family when she was three years old and her mother was often travelling around the world performing.

She had been expelled from five high schools, became an alcoholic at age 13 and had attempted suicide four times.

Mr. Hector also pointed out that he discovered only yesterday that she was three months pregnant.

"The effect of the sentence will punish somebody who is not even around yet,'' he said, "but such is the position she finds herself in.

"She has no previous convictions, no previous blemishes and she has an ailment.

"She is in need of treatment and we do not have the facilities here for her.

I ask you for leniency. She's was crying out for help a long time ago and is still crying out for help.'' Before the sentence was passed Cole told the court she was "not guilty'' when she was asked if she had anything to say.

Crown counsel Mr. Philip Storr, meantime, said her youth, unmarried status, clean record and the fact she had a daughter were not mitigating factors because those are the qualities drug dealers look for in a courier .