In the trial of a man accused of fraudulently obtaining both his and his father?s Bermuda status, the Chief Immigration Officer admitted the accused had not submitted false documents in his status application.

Robert William Martyn 42, of Smith?s is charged with two counts of conspiracy to defraud the Chief Immigration Officer to obtain status for his father William Robert Martyn in September, 2000 and knowingly uttering a false birth certificate in his own name on or about September 18, 2000.

Chief Immigration Officer Martin Brewer said he had reviewed the defendant?s application after a junior had flagged up concerns about whether his father had retained his domicile in Bermuda, which affected his son?s application.

However Dr. Brewer had overruled the concern and said that as a pilot William Martyn had moved about but had frequently returned and maintained domiciled status until the birth of his son in 1962.

Dr. Brewer told Crown counsel Paula Tyndale he would not have taken this view had he seen documents, later in his possession, from the Registrar General in Canada in respect to the birth certificate and the marriage certificate of the grandfather.

Dr. Brewer told defence lawyer Saul Froomkin that the domicile of the father was relevant to the son?s application.

Asked if he had checked whether the defendant?s father was really a pilot with Air Canada, Dr. Brewer admitted he had not, nor had he checked the other details of the father?s complicated arrangements which included four homes.

Dr. Brewer admitted that the birth certificate the defendant had submitted along with photos had been bona fide while he had submitted a copy of his father?s Bermuda status.

Mr. Froomkin said: ?There?s no single document attached to the application, signed by the defendant that was false? ? Dr. Brewer agreed.

And Dr. Brewer agreed the defendant could not have had any knowledge whether another document, detailing the domicile of his father, was true or false.

The court heard Mr. Martyn and his wife had been granted a temporary work permit in 1994.

The case in front of Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves went into legal arguments yesterday but will start again this morning.