drug smuggler Larry Ebbin.

Puisne Judge the Hon. Mrs. Justice Wade took all of yesterday to direct the jury on the law and sum up the evidence.

The 12 jurors are expected to begin deliberating this morning after Mrs.

Justice Wade gives them "one further direction on the law''.

Ebbin, 35, has denied importing cocaine between May 11 and May 20 of 1990 and conspiring to import the drug between October 1988 and May 17, 1990 with others not before the court.

It is alleged the Bermudian bought some six kilos of cocaine -- at a wholesale price of about $60,000 a kilo -- from a Miami-based Cuban drug-smuggling ring which operated in the Island for a decade before being cracked.

Mrs. Justice Wade warned the jury not to infer Ebbin was guilty because others accused of being part of the massive drug ring had pleaded guilty.

She also told them not to allow evidence such as the murder of one of the drug couriers in the conspiracy, Debbie Owens, to prejudice their minds.

Jurors have heard Ebbin was arrested on May 18, 1990 during a drug raid on the Southampton apartment he shared with Dexter Dillas, now serving 18 years for his role in the conspiracy.

Ebbin's lawyer Mr. Archie Warner said in his final address last Friday that his client's only role in the drug conspiracy had been that of "a little gofer'' who did some "petty peddling'' for Dillas.

But prosecutor Mr. Diarmuid Doorly told jurors in his final submission: "It was a filthy business and the Crown is certainly not here to set up some pantomime to convince you that some nobody -- or `little gofer', as the defence would have you believe -- was part of a serious enterprise to bring in massive quantities of cocaine into the Island.'' Drug runner, Victor Alongi, testified he bought two shipments of cocaine to Bermuda on his own and sold more than a kilo to Ebbin and Dillas at their apartment.

Jurors heard that when the Cubans found out about Alongi's secret trips, they threatened to toss him to the sharks in the waters off Miami.

In order to stay alive, Alongi told the Cubans he would go with them to Bermuda and introduce them to his new contacts: Ebbin, Dillas and their landlord Ted Ming.

The Cuban's middleman Antonio Miranda has testified Ebbin bought half of some 11 kilos of cocaine, smuggled in by Owens, Alongi and Angela Trapasso -- who testified she smuggled cocaine in via air and once by cruise ship.

But Ebbin took the stand and denied buying any drugs from Miranda and Alongi -- whom he claimed he never met. He said he happened to meet Miranda on a local beach and introduced him to Dillas.

He said he was "stunned'' when he found out Dillas was a cocaine dealer.

Ebbin said he met Trapasso in a bar but had no idea she was a courier for the Cubans. And he denied ever meeting the Cuban brothers who headed the Miami drug empire.

Ming testified he had never met the Cubans either.

The defence's final witness, Dillas, testified his old roommate Ebbin did not know he was a cocaine distributor. He said Ebbin's only involvement in drug dealing had been selling about five $125 bags of cocaine for him.