The jury in a drugs trial sat through two hours of Federal Express CCTV footage yesterday as the prosecution brought its case to a conclusion.

Its grainy picture appeared to show defendant Andre Hill — who, with Raynol Todd, is jointly accused of conspiring to import $300,000 worth of cocaine to Bermuda — leaning on a FedEx counter for several minutes, signing a form and leaving the building carrying some boxes.

But to the obvious amusement of most of Supreme Court, the painstakingly slow film sent several people in the room to sleep.

The clip of Hill, clad in white trousers, black T-shirt and black baseball cap, could only be shown as part of a lengthy sequence alternating between footage from cameras in other parts of FedEx.

This meant in order to see 27 minutes of Hill collecting his parcels, the jury was also required to watch 27 minutes of an empty garage and a further 27 minutes each of two more rooms in which very little was happening.

It was played on day six of the trial by Crown prosecutor Michael McColm, at the request of Hill's lawyer Rick Woolridge.

Mr. Justice Greaves eventually brought the proceedings to an end by asking Mr. Woolridge: "Do we really want to further this thing?"

Mr. Woolridge replied: "I realise it's like watching paint dry, but we discussed this in the absence of the jury."

The judge then allowed a further few minutes of footage, culminating with Hill leaving the FedEx office, before Mr. McColm said his case was now wrapped up.

Previously, the court had heard the cocaine was discovered on Christmas Eve, 2004, by a Customs Officer who had been alerted to three suspicious boxes by staff at FedEx, where they had been delivered from Trinidad and Tobago.

The prosecution alleges Hill, 53, went to FedEx in Serpentine Road, Pembroke, that day to collect the boxes. However, the Customs Officer had already alerted Police to the discovery, and Hill was arrested as he left the office with the boxes.

He allegedly told the officers the packages were for Todd, 51, who was waiting in the nearby Belco parking lot. Police found him there in a car and arrested him.

Yesterday, before the FedEx CCTV epic, handwriting expert Nola Murphy faced 90 minutes of cross examination from Todd's lawyer Elizabeth Christopher.

Sergeant Murphy, an FBI-trained analyst from Royal Barbados Police Force, had previously said it was "highly probable" that Todd penned a note to Hill, on which he revealed three parcel tracking numbers.

Ms Christopher suggested a number of times that Sergeant Murphy had drawn the wrong conclusion from studying Todd and Hill's handwriting — but the analyst refused to back down.

Hill and Todd deny conspiring to import the cocaine, with Hill also pleading not guilty to an allegation of handling the drugs with intent to supply them.

The case is expected to continue on Monday.