role of drug courier.

Dayle-Smith, who pleaded guilty to drug offences earlier this month and was sentenced to seven years in jail, gave evidence on Friday in day two of the trial of co-accused Vincent Douglas.

Douglas has been charged with importing cocaine and possession of cocaine with intent to supply.

Dayle-Smith said she was "surprised'' and unaware that someone gave her the drugs.

"This was all very shocking to me.'' In February, 1995, an Airport Customs officer found a suspicious material inside hair products which turned out to be cocaine worth $155,625.

Asked on Friday by Archie Warner, Douglas' lawyer, if she was "evasive'' with officials after the drugs were found in her belongings, Dayle-Smith said: "I didn't believe Vince (Douglas) would be a part of this being in my luggage.'' She also said she was using Douglas to get the money he offered for her plane ticket to New York.

Mr. Warner has so far based defence of his client on the premise that Dayle-Smith acted alone and that once caught, she blamed Douglas.

"I'm interested in justice. Everybody will get judged in the end by a real judge. My hope is that the medical people will take care of me. It's over for me (referring to an illness). I didn't put (the drugs) in my bag,'' she said.

"In my mind Roberto was responsible because Vince didn't ask me to bring back drugs.'' Roberto is a Colombian individual in New York who gave her items, among them the hair products containing the drugs, to take to Douglas, Dayle-Smith said.

On Thursday, Mr. Warner told the jury that Dayle-Smith's guilty plea may have been for her own benefit and to lessen her sentence.

Dayle-Smith told the court she pleaded guilty because in the eyes of the court -- "in terms of the way the law is written'' -- she was guilty.

The trial continues today. Puisne Judge Richard Ground presides. Crown counsel is Khamisi Tokumbo.