Nineteen-year-old Mr. Paul York, of Warwick, says he was shocked by accusations that he made the telephone threat and that he is a member of the National Youth Alliance, which published the controversial Nationalist paper.

Mr. York's family claim they have been subjected to much distress and humiliation over the incident.

They have been supported in their call for an apology by Warwick West MPs Dr.

Ewart Brown and Mr. Alex Scott, who say Police techniques used in the incident have added to mistrust between the Police and young black people.

At a press conference yesterday, Dr. Brown said: "Frederick Paul York is a 19-year-old student at the Bermuda College.

"On the morning of March 22 as he went about his newspaper delivery job, Paul was accosted by Police officers, who escorted him to his home and to the surprise of his parents, produced a search warrant.

"They proceeded to search his bedroom looking for evidence which might link him with a threat made on the life of the Queen.

"Paul York, a Christian college student from a Christian family was then taken to St. George's Police Station for approximately five hours of interrogation by Police before being released without being charged.'' Dr. Brown added that the whole family had been emotionally devastated by the event. Paul's parents Mr. Frederick and Mrs. Cecille York attended yesterday's news conference.

Dr. Brown added: "Even more significant than the family's feeling of violation and indignation is the unhealthy trend being set by Police conduct in Bermuda.

"If a God-fearing, Christian college student is subjected to this kind of harassment what kind of Police conduct awaits others in our community -- those who might wear dreadlocks or belong to another religion other than Christianity.'' Mrs. York said: "My family was subjected to much distress and humiliation. I was most upset to see Paul entering my house with five strangers, who turned out to be Police officers. They told us he had made a threatening call to Her Majesty the Queen.'' Mrs. York said the officers searched her son's bedroom and then took him to the St. George's Police Station -- despite the fact that he lives in Warwick.

His father was allowed to sit in on the five hours of questioning during which time the student was asked if he was a member of the National Youth Alliance.

He said the Police told him they had acted because they found books belonging to him next to the phone which had been made to use the call at the College.

They also claim they had been told by another student that Mr. York was a member of the National Youth Alliance.

Mr. York was able to find a fellow student who had been with him at the time the call had been made.

And on checking his voice against the one making the threat -- "I am going to shoot the Queen at 11.30'' during her visit to the Island -- they discovered it was not Mr. York.

"It was not my voice. It had a British accent,'' said Mr. York.

He said the Police officers had acted in a "smug manner'' until they began to realise that he was not the right man.

Since then he had not been charged or heard anything from the Police, so his family had demanded an apology.

Mr. York, who is studying Art and Science, added: "I think it's unfair that young people do not have a voice. They are always considered to be guilty until they are proven innocent.'' Both PLP MPs believed a young white person would have been treated differently by the Police.

However, Dr. Brown said it was a sad but true story of what was happening in Bermuda between young men and the Police.

He said: "Let me make it crystal clear that this MP finds no fault with Police officers who protect and serve the whole community to the best of their abilities.

"But when events like this happen in the community the very fabric of our lives is threatened in no uncertain terms.

"We often speak of our young people in depressing tones but when we have a family which produces a Paul York, we subject them to a kind of Police conduct which seems to be reserved for the black people in Bermuda and which makes a mockery of Police-community relations.

"I understand that the officers involved were merely carrying out their orders and so I call upon Government and its Police leadership to review the techniques employed in approaching our families for information and to employ only those approaches which demonstrate respect for our people.

"To do otherwise is to promote an atmosphere of mistrust which itself promotes outright conflict between the Police and the people they are paid to serve.'' Police Commissioner Mr. Lennett (Lennie) Edwards said yesterday: "I will confirm Police have carried out an investigation pertaining to various publications of the National Youth Alliance.

"A file will be prepared for my attention and forwarded to the Attorney General's Chambers.'' HUMILIATED -- The York family at yesterday's press conference. From left, Mr.

Frederick York, Mr. Paul York and Mrs. Cecille York. See story Page 1 and below .