"Nonsense".
That's how Ian Bailey's solicitor described the idea of his client ever going to France to face a new murder trial.
Mr Bailey was convicted in his absence of the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier by a French court in 2019.
France has failed to get him extradited from Ireland, and he has never been charged here with the crime, which happened in west Cork 25 years ago.
Yesterday, the French president Emmanuel Macron said a new trial could be arranged for him in Paris.
But his solicitor, Frank Buttimer, has dashed any hopes of such an event going ahead.
"There are no circumstances in which where Mr Bailey thought he got any form of retrial."
The attention on the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier has resurfaced this year, thanks to two documentaries on the tragedy.
