A landscape gardener, Mr Bill Fuller, described to the court how Mr Ian Bailey appeared to confess to the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.
Mr Fuller said he visited Mr Bailey in the days following the murder to tell him about rumours circulating in the area that he was responsible for the death of Ms Toscan du Plantier.
Mr Bailey was wearing a "black full-length skirt" at the time, Mr Fuller said, and began to speak about the murder in the second person.
Mr Fuller claimed Mr Bailey said: "You did it. You saw her in Spar on Saturday. You saw her walking up the aisle with her tight arse. You fancied her. You went up there to see what you could get. She ran off screaming. You chased her to calm her down. You stirred something in the back of your head. You went too far. You had to finish her off."
Mr Fuller said he responded by saying: "That sounds like the kind of thing you would do." In response to this, Mr Fuller claims Mr Bailey said: "Funny you should say that, that's how I met Jules. I saw her tight arse, but she let me in."
Mr Bailey has denied this and said he was repeating what others were saying about him. He also insists he was wearing a "black kilt" at the time.
Mr Fuller also told the court that he and his family were chased by Mr Bailey, who was wielding a piece of plank of wood, some time after the murder. The landscape gardener said he had parked his van near a beach where he said he saw Ms Thomas driving on the morning of the murder. Mr Fuller said he inspected the area near the beach with his wife and child but did not find anything.
When they were around 200 yards from the van, Mr Fuller said his wife spotted a figure looking into the van and picking up a piece of timber from the hedge.
"He produced a long piece of timber, around four to five feet in length, pine in colour. He then raised it above his head and came in our direction in long strides. He was looking straight at me, my wife and my child," Mr Fuller said.
At this point Mr Fuller said he recognised the figure as Mr Bailey. The family ran along the beach and onto a road and flagged down the first car that arrived, he said.
The matter was reported to gardaí. However, when they returned to the scene they could not find the piece of timber, Mr Fuller said.
Mr Fuller, who was removed from court last week after he allegedly went up to Mr Bailey and said, "I've got you now," yesterday said he had been misheard.
He apologised to the court for his comments and said he had remarked to Mr Bailey: "You've got sweat on your brow."
Mr Fuller also said that he saw Ms Thomas on the morning of the murder driving a white Fiesta at around 10 a.m. or 11 a.m.
This evidence conflicts with Mr Bailey's and Ms Thomas's earlier in the week. They said they did not leave the house until the afternoon of the murder.
