The former girlfriend of a heroin addict accused of conspiring to import cocaine into Bermuda with his nephew was called as a last-minute witness to his Supreme Court trial yesterday.

Social worker Maleeka Robinson refuted claims by Shannon Dwayne Julian Tucker that she was the person to whom he was sending car parts from St. Martin in the Netherlands Antilles.

The trial had earlier heard that one of the parts, a bumper, was intercepted by Police at Bermuda Airport in 2004 and found to contain cocaine.

Tucker, 30, and his nephew Jahmiko Hayward, 22, deny conspiring together and with persons unknown to import $236,000 worth of cocaine into the Island between March 1 and April 5, 2004.

Tucker, representing himself, appeared as his only defence witness and told the jury that Ms Robinson owned a white Suzuki Vitara before he left Bermuda for St. Martin at the end of 2003.

He said he decided to send her the car parts because she had given or lent him some money when they were in a relationship.

Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves offered Tucker the opportunity to call Ms Robinson, who works at Child and Family Services, as a defence witness but he declined.

Ms Tyndale then asked if she could call her as a prosecution ?rebuttal? witness and Ms Robinson, from Hamilton parish, took to the stand.

She told the jury that Tucker, of Broken Hill Lane, Smith?s, was a friend of hers whom she had known for six or seven years. She had never met Hayward though she knew of him, she said.

Ms Robinson said she did not own the white Vitara when Tucker left the Island for St. Martin and that he had never discussed buying auto parts for the car with her. The court also heard that the vehicle had not been registered with TCD until February 2004.

Ms Robinson said she had been in contact with Tucker when he was in St. Martin and would call him from her home phone. Her evidence contradicted Tucker?s, who had told the jury he did not give her his number there because he did not want her to know he was staying with a lady friend.

He said they would communicate when she visited his mother?s house and his mother would call him and hand the phone over.

Asked by Ms Tyndale if she ever spoke to him on his mother?s telephone, Ms Robinson replied: ?No.?

She also refuted Tucker?s claims that she gave her address to his nephew and that she gave him money before he left Bermuda.

Allan Doughty, for Hayward, asked her if she remembered receiving a call from his client in April 2004. ?I did not receive a phone call,? she said.

Mr. Doughty suggested she was being evasive because she was concerned about having her name dragged into a drugs trial.

?I?m not nervous,? she said. ?I did not receive a telephone call from Mr. Hayward.?

Under cross-examination from Tucker, she again denied that Hayward had ever called her to get her address. ?Am I lying to the court about asking you for your address?? he asked.

?I guess you are because you never asked me for my address,? she replied.

Tucker had to be prompted several times by Mr. Justice Greaves to continue his cross-examination due to lengthy pauses between his questions.

And later the judge ordered him to sit down after he interrupted proceedings from the dock. The case continues today.