More than 160 grammes of drugs were found during a 2023 search of a Pembroke hotel room, the Supreme Court heard yesterday.

David Osadebay, 38, has denied a charge of possessing diamorphine, more commonly known as heroin, with intent to supply on August 4, 2023.

The court heard that Mr Osadebay, a British musician, had arrived in Bermuda days earlier and was arrested on suspicion of entering the country using fraudulent documents.

A subsequent search of his hotel room revealed a number of oval-shaped, plastic-wrapped capsules in a green and white sanitary bag inside the locked room safe, along with another loose capsule on the floor of the safe.

A written statement by Inspector Derrick Golding, was read out, in which the detective wrote that an analyst’s report had found the substance in the safe contained heroin.

The 11 capsules found within the sanitary bag contained 159.1g of 9 per cent pure heroin, while the capsule found on the floor of the safe contained 4.6g of 11 per cent pure heroin.

Mr Golding wrote that under the Misuse of Drugs Act, the threshold amount of heroin to be considered as being intended for supply is 1g.

The court was also read a statement from Detective Constable Malcolm Dill, who served as the notes officer during the search of Mr Osadebay’s hotel room.

According to his records, he wrote that the safe was also found to contain a British passport, a boarding pass, bank cards and a provisional driver’s licence all bearing the name “Joshua Andrew Webb”.

Other items in the safe included a Louis Vuitton fanny pack and two silver chains. The trial will continue next week.

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