A police witness told the Supreme Court yesterday that a woman accused of drug smuggling refused to give her name when she was arrested.

Pc Sandip Roy said the woman also denied that she was Claudisha Charley when he approached her at LF Wade International Airport on the afternoon of April 4.

Ms Charley, 29, was charged that month with conspiring with Kevin Rousseau and others to import and supply a quantity of cannabis worth almost $1 million.

On Tuesday, the court heard that Mr Rousseau, 49, from Toronto, Canada, pleaded guilty to offences connected with the incident.

Daniel Kitson-Walters, for the Crown, said yesterday that the accused allegedly smuggled 9,262 grams of cannabis into the island. The drug carried a street value of up to $919,264.

The method and concealment of the drugs was consistent with that used by drug traffickers, he added.

Mr Roy told the court that, acting on information received, he and Pc Paul Watson saw a woman seated on a swing near a restaurant at the airport at 5.18pm on April 4.

He said: “I asked her if her name was Claudisha Charley and she said ‘no’.”

The officer said he told the woman that he believed she was indeed Claudisha Charley based on photograph identification provided in a police notice.

Mr Roy said he arrested the woman while Mr Watson seized her phone. She was taken to Hamilton Police Station.

Detective Constable O’Neil Swaby, a prosecution witness, told the court that on April 5, he visited the address provided by Ms Charley which was for an Airbnb operator based in St David’s.

He said he searched a room that the operator identified as occupied by the accused.

Mr Swaby said he seized several items from a suitcase, including a Canadian passport, a boarding pass and an airline receipt, all in the name of the accused.

A mobile phone SIM card and a pink sweat top were also found.

Mr Swaby identified the garment as the one the accused appeared to have worn in still images from the day she arrived on the island.

The trial before Puisne Judge Alan Richards continues.

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