An Egyptian teaching assistant has been sentenced to six months in prison for killing 60 laboratory mice to sabotage a colleague's research project.
The man, Armian M, admitted to poisoning the mice’s drinking water to kill them, according to a police custody report.
His colleague, a veterinary pathology fellow at Qena’s South Valley University, arrived at her lab to find all her mice dead.
She then found traces of formaldehyde on the floor and in the water containers inside the mice’s cages, read the police report.
The woman told the police that she suspected her colleague of killing the mice in order to destroy her research and ruin her chances at a degree.
He was found guilty and fined 50 pounds ($2.67) by a misdemeanours court in the Upper Egyptian province of Qena.
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