A prosecutor has urged a jury to reject a defence lawyer's allegations that a gang of rogue police officers framed three men for drug dealing.

According to lawyer Llewellyn Peniston, representing Robert Damon Green, drugs found during a Police raid on a St. George's guest room were put there by the officers themselves.

"Those drugs were planted because the Police seriously wanted to get these guys by any means necessary," he told a Supreme Court jury yesterday.

However, Crown counsel Robert Welling told them: "This has been, from start to finish on the part of counsel for Mr. Green, an attempt to smear the entire search and arrest team."

Green, 28, is accused, along with Sydney O'Neil Gibbons, 43, and Ronald O'Neal Beach, 33, of operating a drug dealing enterprise out of a guest room at Aunt Nea's Inn in St. George's.

The trio were charged with possession of heroin and cocaine with intent to supply after an early-morning bust at the venue on June 1. They deny the allegations.

The case for the prosecution, as previously set out by Mr. Welling, is that Police entered the room to find Gibbons, of Harlem Heights Road, Hamilton Parish, on the bed. Beach was on the couch and Green was naked in the bathroom trying to escape from a small window.

In the room, officers found items including two wooden stirring sticks and a pair of scissors with crack cocaine residue on them, plastic sandwich bags with the corners cut off and a Rizla packet. In the bathroom was a pink packet of what appeared to be Skittles and two homemade cigarettes containing crack.

The jury has heard from Mr. Welling that during the arrest, Green, of DeSilva Close, Pembroke, began to struggle with the officers after they assisted in clothing him, taking the pink packet of Skittles and shoving them in his pants.

When the officers were taking them out of the room, Green began to move around and the packet, containing $18,000 worth of heroin and cocaine, and $4,000 in cash fell out of his pants, it is alleged. In the packet of Skittles was worth $18,000 of heroin and crack cocaine.

When Beach, of Cottage Hill Road, Hamilton Parish, was taken to South Side Police Station, $1,500 of heroin was found in the tongue of one of his shoes.

In his closing address to the jury, Mr. Peniston claimed the prosecution account was not enough to convince the jury beyond reasonable doubt that Green is guilty.

Claiming the Police officers planted the drugs in the room, he listed dozens of occasions where various officers answered questions during their evidence with the response: "I cannot recall."

He alleged: "There was a narrow band of lying Police officers that were part of a conspiracy to trap this man by any means necessary."

Rick Woolridge Jr, representing Gibbons and Beach, told the jury that while his clients admitted to being drug users during the case, this did not mean they were guilty of being drug pedlars.

He claimed Police officers had given conflicting evidence about events at Aunt Nea's, which he dismissed as "gobbledygook," saying there was no evidence either man had drugs in their possession.

He asked the jury to dismiss the "nursery rhyme" put before them and give them the benefit of any doubt.

"Can you sleep at night knowing that 'I'm sure?' I respectfully submit that the only thing you can be sure of is that you have not been given sufficient evidence to be sure they are guilty," he urged.

However, Mr. Welling said: "See this (defence) case for what it is. It's a smokescreen. It's an attempt to fool you into thinking it's a bent and rogue unit. It's not. These defendants were found fair and square red-handed with these drugs on that day."

Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves is to sum up the case today before sending the jury out to consider its verdict.