The judge in the Omagh bomb trial has reserved his judgment after hearing final submissions in the case today.
After hearing evidence for 56 days on the 56 charges against Seán Hoey, Mr Justice Weir retired to consider his verdict. He said he had "a great deal to think about and a great deal of material to look at".
The judge said he would make his decision as quickly as possible. It is anticipated he will return verdicts in six to eight weeks.
Mr Hoey (37), an electrician from Molly Road, Jonesborough, in South Armagh, denies all the charges against him involving a campaign of bombings across Northern Ireland which culminated with the Omagh attack.
He has been accused of being the bomb maker behind the Omagh attack in August 1998 that killed 29 people and injured hundreds more.
Concluding his final submission to the judge, defence counsel Orlando Pownall QC said simply: "The Crown case must fail. There has to be some evidence of participation and there is, we submit, none.
"The Crown can't prove he constructed any of these devices, particularly the Omagh bomb."
Mr Pownall said the Crown had failed to prove its assertion that a single person constructed all the bombs - still less that the person was Seán Hoey.
The Crown case relied heavily on DNA and fibre evidence, but Mr Pownall said the DNA was unreliable, evidence had been "beefed up" by witnesses and "important exhibits have been interfered with".
PA