possessing heroin, supplying the drug and handling it with intent to supply gave diametrically opposing versions of supposedly the same event.

Shawn Crockwell and Komieko Steede both testified during Lasheika Mary Nicole Burgess' trial yesterday.

It is alleged that Burgess, of Westwood Lane, Pembroke, took part of a drugs exhibit that Crockwell had stolen from the Supreme Court safe in 1995 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 the theft of the drug exhibit from a Supreme Court vault in 1995.

Crockwell and Steede are both serving 10 years and three years respectively for their part in the theft and supply of heroin from the Supreme Court safe and then selling it to others.

Both were arrested on September 1, 1995 and Crockwell admitted -- after lying to Police in his first two statements -- that he took the drugs from the Supreme Court safe after the conclusion of Jeffrey Kwasi Osborne's Supreme Court trial.

However, the events after the theft which transpired between Crockwell, Steede, Burgess and Cecil Hendrickson are in dispute.

Crockwell said that he hid the drugs under his gown -- he was formerly the Supreme Court clerk and responsible for the security of all exhibits -- and took them home at the conclusion of the Osborne case in 1995.

He then repackaged the heroin and waited for one week before he contacted Steede.

On his account of events, he met her on three occasions. Twice at Elbow Beach and once near her home and received a total of $24,000 after the drugs were sold.

Crockwell also said that on one occasion Burgess -- who is Steede's sister -- was present when he gave Steede a portion of the drugs although she played no role in the transaction other than as the driver of the car that carried Steede to Elbow Beach that night. When Steede took the stand later yesterday morning at the conclusion of Crockwell's evidence, she said that her first meeting with him took place outside her store.

A few weeks later she received the first portion of the heroin at her home in Smith's and they had a second meeting at the Elbow Beach.

At that time she said that her sister was not present only Crockwell's friend Cecil Hendrickson. At that time she said she just gave Crockwell the proceeds of the heroin -- some $28,000 -- he had given her at her home.

On a third occasion she said she met Crockwell again at Elbow Beach and he gave her nine ounces of heroin and she gave it to her boyfriend Michael Jackson to sell -- Jackson is serving seven and a half years for heroin possession unconnected to this case.

Steede said she gave the whole nine ounces to Burgess to secure. Burgess was at the time on a moped at the main entrance to Elbow Beach.

And she said that Burgess had no idea what was in the package but kept it in the headboard of her bed.

Later on Steede said that she retrieved one portion of the heroin and sold it for $30,000 which she used to pay bills and make loans to friends.

However Steede said that when she went back to her sister's house to collect the rest, her sister said that it was missing and she informed Crockwell of this and he did nothing.

The case continues this morning before Puisne Judge Richard Ground. Wilhelm Bourne appears for the Crown and Archie Warner appears for the defence.