Local prosecution lawyers have slammed Manchester United captain Harry Maguire.

On Tuesday, the United defender was found guilty of repeated bodily harm, attempted bribery, violence against public employees and insult following his arrest last week.

He was sentenced to 21 months, 10 days in prison, suspended for three years.

Lawyer Dr Ioannis Paradissis said there was still time "to say sorry".

Dr Paradissis, who represented two of the six Greek police officers involved in the case, told BBC Radio 4: "The appeal process in Greece is a retrial. So obviously there is still time for the three defendants to say they are sorry and then I believe that the outcome might be different.

"It would be different because under Greek law you can withdraw some accusations - non-aggravated bodily harm and the verbal assaults that were shouted at the policeman.

"I don't know if my clients would accept that but they told me they are still waiting for an apology and they haven't heard any and this is what I find quite shocking and quite unsportsmanlike, because fair play means when I've done something wrong, I apologise."

Maguire's lawyer, Alexis Anagnostakis - one of Greece's top human rights lawyers - told the court the events stemmed from Maguire's sister Daisy being injected by a substance by a group of Albanians and she immediately fainted.

But Paradissis claimed: "Obviously that [Maguire's sister being injected] is irrelevant concerning the assault committed against the police officers.

"And in any case what is strange about this case about the sister is that the sister was interviewed by police and she said nothing about that to the police. This is a new line of defence that we heard recently."