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The Government has ruled out political intervention in the case of a New Zealand man being held in a Polish jail.
Bruce Robinson was charged with endangering the life and health of people after the collapse of the snow-covered roof of a hall in the southern city of Katowice last January.
The collapse killed 65 people and injured 140.
Robinson was managing director of Expomedia, a London-based parent company of International Katowice Fairs, which owned the building.
Robinson's lawyer, Greg Slyszyk, told the Sunday Star-Times from Poland that his client's only hope of getting bail was intervention by Prime Minister Helen Clark after his appeals had failed.
"Any possibility to help Bruce lies in her hands," he said.
"They [the New Zealand Government] should start being interested, and show how a democratic country fights for an individual citizen."
Helen Clark's office referred calls to Foreign Minister Winston Peters.
Mr Peters' spokesman said the Government's position had not changed.
"The New Zealand Government will not seek to interfere in the judicial system in Poland and New Zealanders would never tolerate another country attempting to interfere in our judicial system."
Robinson's family said he was willing to face trial but wanted bail after being locked up for 22 hours a day with seven other inmates in a 15sq m cell.
Slyszyk said the trial was expected to be held this year.
- NZPA
