possessing heroin, supplying the drug and handling it with intent to supply is an "unabashed liar'' who cannot be believed, her lawyer asserted.

And, defence lawyer Archie Warner claimed, Shawn Crockwell has displayed a pattern of deception that discredits anything and everything he says.

Consequently, he told the jury not to pay any attention to anything Crockwell said.

Crockwell, who is serving a ten year sentence for stealing a drug exhibit from the Supreme Court and possessing the drug, was called to give evidence yesterday.

It is alleged that Lasheika Mary Nicole Burgess, of Westwood Lane, Pembroke, took part of the drugs exhibit and gave it to her father.

After that, the drugs are said to have gone missing and were not recovered.

Burgess, 20, has denied three drug offences in connection with Crockwell's theft of the drug exhibit from a Supreme Court vault in 1995.

In a statement he gave to Police on September 4, 1995, Crockwell claimed Burgess took a portion of the heroin he had stolen and gave it to her father.

Mr. Warner, however, attacked Crockwell's integrity pointing out that he had lied consistently to Police in at least two statements he made after his arrest on September 1, 1995.

Crockwell admitted that he lied -- including falsely implicating his own former workmates in his own wrongdoing -- because he feared a long prison sentence.

But Crockwell said he had had a "religious experience'' while at the St.

George's Police Station on September 3, 1995 and decided to tell the truth to Police the next day.

Yet, Mr. Warner pointed out, Crockwell proceeded to lie to Police from the time his interview commenced at 12.30 p.m. on September 4, 1995 until 4.45 p.m. before he came clean about his real involvement in the theft of the drugs from the Court safe.

Crockwell said Burgess was the driver of the car that brought her sister Komieko Steede to a meeting at Elbow Beach in July, 1995.

At that time Crockwell said he gave Steede part of the heroin he had taken from the safe and she had placed it on the floor of the passenger side of the car.

Crockwell said Steede had promised to help him sell the drugs so he could get money for law school.

He said that although Burgess was with Steede on that occasion, he did not speak with her and conducted the drugs transaction only with Steede her sister.

The case continues on Monday before Puisne Judge Richard Ground.

Lasheika Burgess