MICHAEL Shields's case will have international consequences, his lawyers warned the Bulgarian court where he is being tried for a crime he did not commit.
Defence solicitor Oleg Antanasov condemned the whole investigation and subsequent trial as "rushed", and described his client as a scapegoat.
Yesterday Judge Angelina Lazarova rejected Graham Sankey's confession that he attacked waiter Martin Georgiev at the Golden Sands resort in May, and ordered the Anfield electrician be struck from the list of witnesses.
But Mr Antanasov said the case against Michael Shields was full of holes.
"The stone used in the attack was not even examined for fingerprints or other traces that it had come into contact with our client. Police have been trying to provide evidence for the prosecution that shows my client was behind the attack, but have entirely failed to do so.
"The investigation and the trial have been conducted at a speed incredible for our country.
"When a crime is given high status, the police seem prepared to do everything necessary in order to resolve it." He said the only description police had after the attack was "a British person with fair hair and of large stature".
He added: "I don't want to think about the consequences of a wrongful imprisonment as a result of new evidence being ignored."
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