Smelly student wins 10-year battle

A Dutch university student has won the right to attend lectures after a 10-year legal battle over his smelly feet.

Teunis Tenbrook was kicked out of Rotterdam's Erasmus University after professors and students claimed they couldn't study because of his foul foot odour, the Ananova news website reports.

But now a court has overturned the ban, saying it was no excuse for the student to be expelled from the university.

"Our considered opinion is that the professors and other students will just have to hold their noses and bear it," Ananova quoted the judge as saying.

During the court case, Tenbrook told how he had tried to continue his studies in the university library after he had been banned from lectures, but then he was barred from the library as well.

The university has said that it will fine students with smelly feet in future, instead of banning them.