Took my mac in for repair came back even worse

Brace yourselves for a long explanation:
My MacBook Pro 15" retina started acting up about a month ago, sudden restarts and such, I assumed that Yosemite was to blame but, then when the laptop got hot the problems worsened I touched an area by the bottom of the Left speaker or moved it ever so slightly, screen goes black, or for no reason at all, but the Mac remains on until it force restarts itself to the Kernel reboot screen where I have to start all over again. The hotter it gets the more sensitive the issue is, also my screen is out of focus on the log in window and after I enter my password, the mouse comes up pixilatated large in the centre of the screen however it did work
As a back story,my screen was replaced by Apple a few months ago due to a large number or pixels dropping which they did free of charge
Now I took it into the Mac store and they said they had no idea but  they'll look into it, the next morning i was called to say I need to pay £620 to fix it, now the reason they said was water damage,  However this Mac is used  in an Electronics Lab and occasionally the library when the lab is closed, and i'm certain I've never spilt anything or for that matter had liquid near it. So I went into see where this liquid damage had occurred, and as there's no point arguing with the geniuses once they have reached there verdict, picked up the laptop and took it home. I'm not saying the guy was wrong, but I don't see how that was the case.
When I reached home and booted up my MacBook I'm stuck in the reset your login password screen, I can select what's wrong with my password and then I can enter my iCloud ID but that is it, no WiFi no back or restart, nothing
I can't afford to pay the repairs, but now they have given me a laptop that is essentially a £1799 pretty block of aluminum rather than a Mac that restarted every 10min
Has anyone ever been here or can give any advice at all on how to improve my situation?

They seem to be refusing to do anything due to the liquid damage, although I belive the problem stems, as far as I can tell from the original repair, water damage or not :/ I may take it in again but it's another 2hr roundtrip to see them and to wait a week for an appointment :/

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