The man charged in connection with the 1998 Omagh bomb has turned down the chance to give evidence at his trial.
Speaking in court today, a defence lawyer for Seán Hoey - an electrician from south Armagh - confirmed he did not intend to go into the witness box at Belfast Crown Court.
Mr Hoey, 37, denies 56 charges connected to a series of dissident republican strikes, including the August 1998 Omagh atrocity when 29 people were killed.
As well as voice analysis and DNA profiling, the case against him is based on four fibres taken from a timer power unit recovered from a massive car bomb defused in the centre of Lisburn, Co Antrim, months before the Omagh outrage.
Mr Hoey's barrister, Orlando Pownall QC, told Mr Justice Weir, the judge in the non-jury trial, that he expected to finish calling any witnesses and make final submissions by the end of this week.
After that, Mr Justice Weir is expected to reserve judgment.
But when the judge told Mr Pownall that it had now reached the stage where his client could indicate whether he intends to give evidence, the lawyer replied: "He does not." Wrongly-labelled exhibits have become a key issue in the trial, along with the discrediting of DNA forensic techniques used to link Hoey to a number of the terrorist offences.
The accused denies all the charges against him and even though he declined the chance to give evidence on his own behalf, the offer is expected to be put to him again after new tests are carried out tomorrow on the detonator equipment in question.
The trial was adjourned until Thursday.