Danish publisher on hearing for murdering fish with shampoo

321PM GMT twenty-six March 2010

Lisbeth Koelster, a radio presenter on the Danish open channel DR1, was last May found guilty by a district justice in Glostrup, west of Copenhagen, of violating animal insurance laws.

She had poured a "very diluted" volume of shampoo in to a fish tank on a 2004 part of the consumer affairs show she fronted to denote the turn of poisonous element in a code of anti-dandruff shampoo.

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After 3 days, all but one of the fish were dead.

The reduce justice decider had ruled that Miss Koelster "deliberately committed an action of cruelty to animals" and disregarded animal insurance laws, but motionless not to palm down any judgment given an irrational volume of time, "four-and-a-half years," had upheld in between the date the censure was filed and the trial.

The appeals justice judges ruled on Friday, however, that Miss Koelster"s exam did not violate European laws on experimenting on animals.

They additionally pronounced it had "not been amply proven that Ms. Koelster had caused the fish agonise and suffering," as claimed by the plaintiff, a veterinary practitioner who saw Koelster"s show.

Following the proceedings, Koelster pronounced she was "thrilled at this really evident verdict" that "exonerates me of all the charges."

"This is a good feat for the leisure of journalistic work. I was not an executioner of these fish and I have not disregarded animal insurance laws, as this statute confirms," she told AFP.