A white van man has been accused of throwing drug-filled tennis balls into a prison yard.
Connor Freeman, of Princess Way in Huyton, is accused of conveying a List A article into or out of a prison and appeared at Mold Crown Court for trial on Thursday.
Freeman had already confessed to one charge of sending cannabis into HMP Berwyn in North Wales.
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But the 29-year-old denied a second allegation, stating he knew nothing about the cocaine that was also sent flying over the fence stuffed into tennis balls, reports NorthWalesLive.
Ryan Rothwell prosecuting said Freeman was travelling from Merseyside to Wrexham's HMP Berwyn accompanied by a friend.
The pair carried out the hour-long journey on four occasions in Freeman's work van.
The journey recorded on November 30, 2019, saw the van make drops at the prison twice in one day. This was the charge in which Freeman faces trial.
The jury was told how in the morning, at around 10.30am, two packages were thrown over the fence and were not recovered by prison staff before inmates got to them.
Later in the day, at around 3.30pm, three more packages were thrown over the fence and launched into the exercise yard.
These were caught by officers on alert at the jail. It was said that one ball contained cannabis and another held a quantity of both cannabis and cocaine.
The first recorded journey happened a week earlier - on November 23 - when staff at the Wrexham jail recovered two empty packages from the exercise yard that CCTV later pinned on the pair.
The men were arrested on December 13, weeks after their drug running is thought to have begun, at a BP petrol station in Chester. Two more packages were thrown into the prison on that date as well but nothing recovered.
All of these journeys were captured with ANPR cameras that were able to track the route taken from Merseyside to North Wales, the court was told.
CCTV footage was also referred to in court that caught items being thrown over the inner perimeter fence of the jail by a man who had scaled the external fence as well as a white van - driven by Freeman - was waiting at the roadside.
Furthermore, cell site analysis was able to pinpoint the men's devices in the HMP Berwyn area at the times of the drug drops.
Freeman was called up to the dock towards the end of the day in order to answer questions by the prosecutor.
Mr Rothwell questioned the 29-year-old, who is a primary carer for his grandad, and was told that he was "helping" out his friend who was claiming to be "under pressure" and allegedly getting "death threats" from people within the prison that were never named.
He accepted driving the van to Wrexham but denies all knowledge about the Class A drug being present, saying he believed the packages were solely filled with cannabis - a Class B drug.
"At the time, I was helping a friend. Looking back, it was very stupid and I just felt sorry for him," Freeman told the court.
Throughout the course of the trial, it was stated that Freeman's accomplice has failed to attend court hearings after his arrest and has been "at large" for a significant period of time.
The jury was sent out to reach their verdict momentarily on Thursday afternoon before Judge Nicola Saffman made the decision to send everyone home after the full case had been presented in a day.
She said the jury would return to Mold Crown Court on Friday at 10.30am to resume discussions.
