MADRID (AP) A Spanish court has acquitted a 27-year-old concert pianist on charges of causing noise pollution and psychological damage to a neighbor.
According to a written ruling issued on Tuesday, the court in northeastern Girona absolved professional pianist Laia Martin and her parents of both charges.
The trial this month caused a storm when prosecutors sought a sentence of seven years. They later reduced this to 20 months.
Martin's upstairs neighbor, Sonia Bosom, complained that the pianist practiced five days a week for eight hours at a sitting between 2003 and 2007. The court said it found Bosom's claims unreliable and exaggerated.
