An alleged drugs mule said that he was innocent of importing drugs into Bermuda because he never meant to come to the Island and was on his way to England.

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

In Supreme Court yesterday Crown counsel Graveney Bannister asked Cox if he arrived in Bermuda with 66 pellets containing a total of 150 grammes of cannabis and 361 grammes of cocaine with a street value of $125,750 in his stomach but Cox said: "That's incorrect. I was not coming to Bermuda".

"You agree that Bermuda is not England?" Mr. Bannister asked.

"It is on the way to England," Cox replied.

Cox also said he did not know the pellets had drugs in them.

And he denied that he chose to bring drugs into Bermuda and that he did it for "money and an airline ticket" as alleged by Mr. Bannister.

Cox denied fabricating his story to "give the impression that he was oppressed and beaten".

Mr. Bannister charged Cox with "making the whole thing up" but Cox denied it.

Mr. Bannister asked Cox why he did not excrete the pellets in Newark airport when he was free of his "captors".

The jury also heard that Cox had "tried to use the bathroom inside the plane".

"So you felt like using the bathroom?" Mr. Bannister asked.

"Yes, all the time," Cox replied.

"What did you do ? stand on your head?" he asked.

When Mr. Bannister asked Cox why he did not take a laxative to get out of trouble but Cox said: "The two tablets they gave me to drink caused the pellets to compress in my stomach".

Mr. Bannister put it to him that because he cleared customs in Newark he thought he was going to be able to get through customs in Bermuda as well.

Cox denied not eating on the plane because he "was fearful of excreting the pellets before coming to Bermuda".

He said that his girlfriend in Jamaica would be better protected by authorities in England, which was why he was trying to get there.

And Cox said he did not want to visit the UK consulate in Jamaica because he "felt like someone was checking on me".

When asked why he brought drugs to Bermuda, Cox said in broken English that: "I did not come to Bermuda, I was going to England".

Mr. Bannister suggested that Cox's life was never in danger in Jamaica.

Cox denied it.

Cox also denied that from moments he swallowed the pellets he knew that they were destined for "Errol" in Bermuda.

Cox is represented by Victoria Pearman.

Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons told the eight woman, four man jury yesterday that the trial might be finished today.