MORE than £2m worth of heroin was produced as evidence in the Royal Court yesterday in the case of Stuart Silvester, who denies committing Jersey’s biggest ever importation of a class A drug.

The drugs haul was found hidden in secret compartments in a hired VW Passat driven by Silvester (51) in Pleasant Street on 10 December 2004.

He had brought the car to the Island on the Condor ferry from Weymouth the day before – but he said he thought he was delivering cash, not drugs.

Crown Advocate Julian Gollop took the unusual step of presenting the heroin – said to be worth between £1.4m and £2.2m – to the Inferior Number of the Royal Court yesterday, when the contents of one of ten sealed bags of heroin was passed to the Jurats for inspection.

Silvester is one of four people charged with being knowingly concerned in the importation of the heroin.

The others were named by the Crown yesterday as Joao David Andrade, described by the Crown as ‘the Jersey connection’, who has pleaded guilty; Darren Andrews, described by the Crown as ‘the principal UK link’, who has pleaded guilty; and William Swinburne, described as ‘a gopher’, who disappeared while on bail.Silvester this morning told the court that he had agreed to take cash to Jersey for £500 ‘easy money’.

He described how he had left the car in a pub car park under instructions from Andrews the day before the sailing, and had collected it and driven it to the ferry.

The trial continues.