A Supreme Court jury heard yesterday that both Police and Customs officers watched a British man accused of importing drugs pass 66 drug-filled pellets into hospital bedpans.

Jamie Edward Cox, 27, of Gehard Street, Altenkessel in Germany, denies four charges of importation and possession with intent to supply of cannabis and cocaine on July 20, 2003.

Cox is a UK national who lives in Germany. When he arrived in Bermuda he was due to stay at the Windsong Guest Apartments in Pembroke for six days, the court heard, but ended up in Police custody. Contrary to yesterday?s story, Cox is not a Bermuda resident.

In earlier testimony on Monday, Det. Con. Windol Thorpe told Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons and the jury that Cox excreted 11 pellets at 7.10 p.m. on July 20, 2003, in King Edward VII Memorial Hospital room 3016. Cox?s lawyer Victoria Pearman yesterday asked why Cox was not fed over the time he was kept in the hospital.

?It is policy in case the individual needs to be taken into surgery,? Det. Con. Thorpe said.

The court also heard from Special Officer for H.M. Customs O?Brian Roberts.

Mr. Roberts said he watched Cox excrete 20 pellets ? over five separate occasions ? in one day. ?Cox indicated he had to go to the bathroom,? Mr. Roberts said. ?I accompanied him. He was issued with a clean, empty bedpan. He sat upon it and minutes later he excreted a number of pellets.

?Cox showed me the pan and I could clearly see three pellets at the bottom of the pan. He then cleaned and dried them off and handed them to me and I put them in a bag.?

But at 12 p.m. the officers had a problem on their hands because (Cox) could not clean the pellets. ?Apparently the entire plumbing at the hospital went down,? Mr. Roberts said. ?At 12.40 p.m. after making a request, we were provided with a jug of water.?

The pellets were placed in five plastic bags, all of which were signed by Mr. Roberts and the defendant. The court also heard from Det. Con. Woolridge Mathurin who testified that when stopped at the Bermuda International Airport on July 20, ?the defendant indicated that he was willing to be detained rather than have an X-ray?.

When Det. Con Mathurin and Det. Con. Thorpe tried to put Cox in a car to be taken to hospital a struggle ensued. ?He struggled with us, forcefully pulling away,? said Det. Con. Mathurin. ?At that moment (Cox) said ?You will have to beat me, but I?m not going to hospital for X-rays?. He made it very difficult by holding onto doors and door entrances. We had to pry his fingers open.?

Cox was taken to the hospital where at 4.00 p.m., in the presence of the defendant, Det. Con. Mathurin discovered 34 pellets in Cox?s faeces. The court also heard earlier that Cox had once passed a solitary pellet ? for a total of 66 drug-filled capsules.

A Government analyst later determined that the pellets contained 150 grams of cannabis and 361 grams of cocaine.

The drugs were said to have a street value of $125,750. ?Some were red, some were green and some were purple in colour,? Det. Con. Mathurin said of the pellets.

The trial continues this morning.