A Bradford mum accused of storing drugs as part of a million-pound conspiracy told a Court she did not know they were in her house.

Rebecca Eley, 27, a former sales assistant, told Bradford Crown Court yesterday she had given birth by caesarean section shortly before the drugs were alleged to have been in her loft, so her condition would have left her unable to access the room herself.

She is accused of allowing £420,440 worth of heroin and cocaine to be stashed at her house, between December 20 and 24, 2009, as part of a larger conspiracy.

Giving evidence, she told the court a man alleged by prosecutor Jonathan Sandiford to have been the “main man” in the conspiracy, came round to her house, in Melba Road, Canterbury, on December 22. She called him Barry and described him as a friend.

Another man came round shortly afterwards, she told the court.

A female friend of Eley also visited the house, at which point both men went upstairs, Eley said, because her friend was a “gossip” and they did not want her to know they were there. Eley said she was unaware of what the men were doing upstairs.

She later found a bin liner on her kitchen floor which one of the men told her to throw away, she told the court.

She said a text message sent later by Barry saying “no access” meant he wanted to come round to see her, but she refused because her boyfriend was there.

When police turned up at her house the next day, the court heard, she asked them if they were there because of Barry and said she knew he had been doing “something dodgy” when he was there.

She told the court: “The way he was acting was a bit suspicious, like he was always on his phone. He didn’t really sit down.”

Binbags containing the drugs were found in her loft.

When asked by her barrister Geraldine Kelly whether she had ever been aware of any drugs being in her loft, she replied: “No.”

The trial continues.