cocaine the Supreme Court was told yesterday.

Lawyer Mr. Archie Warner told the court that his client, Robin Young, has been a victim of her friend's mother, Mrs Shirleen Phillips, someone she had trusted.

Mr. Warner was giving his closing speech as the trial of Young and New Yorker Jacqueline Martells entered its third week.

Young, 19, of Boundary Terrace, Devonshire, was stopped at the Civil Air Terminal, on Sunday, February 9, and the cocaine was found in the bottom of a bag she was carrying.

She was arrested and charged with conspiracy to import, importation, possession and handling. Martells, 22, of Brooklyn was arrested later that week and charged with conspiracy and importation. She had travelled into Bermuda on the same plane.

Young claims that she went to New York to pick up material for her "Auntie'' Shirleen, who was preparing clothes for a wedding. But she spent most of her time in an apartment belonging to a man called Tony, and, unwittingly, says she became a courier of drugs between Tony and Mrs. Phillips.

Mr. Warner said: "I suggest that Robin Young was callously used by someone she trusted.

"She was in an apartment waiting for money to buy material. She was not happy with the surroundings and she had very little money to go out.

"When she did go shopping, with Dimples, a friend of Tony's, on the Sunday morning Tony dropped them off and said he had to go back home and do one or two things. I suggest that one of the things that Tony had to do was to put the drug in Robin Young's bag.

"She may have been a silly girl to show confidence in her Aunt Shirleen but there is no evidence to show that she knew she was acting as a drug courier.'' Mr. Warner hit out at evidence by Young's former boyfriend Mr. Dupray Joell and his friend Raymond Raynor who said that she had told them that she was bring back drugs before she was stopped on February 9.

He called the two men "rascals'' and accused them of being involved in a "conspiracy of lies''.

Mr. Warner said Mr. Joell had been jealous because he believed Young had travelled to the US to see another man. He said: "Hell hath no fury like a woman's scorn, and in true fashion, a man's scorn as well.'' Earlier Crown Counsel Mr. Brian Calhoun had finished the case for the prosecution.

Mr. Calhoun told the jury to ignore "smokescreen'' defences raised by the lawyers for Young and Martells and concentrate on the main evidence.

He defended the evidence of Mr. Joell and Mr. Raynor, and said that the economics of a trip to New York simply to pick up material was not right.

Mr. Calhoun said: "We have a serious drug problem in Bermuda. This is one of the strongest cases any jury has ever had. The people of Bermuda will benefit or pay for your decision.'' Puisne Judge the Hon. Mrs. Justice Wade said that she will sum up this morning and the jury will be sent out before lunch.