Norwich - A jury yesterday found a group of environmentalists - including Greenpeace executive director Lord Melchett - not guilty of damaging a GM crop at Lyng, Norfolk, in August last year.
A jubilant Lord Melchett called on the government to cancel GM farm trials after the landmark case "before any further genetic pollution of the environment occurs".
But a spokesman for the Department of the Environment said the tests would go on. "These farm-scale evaluations are vital for us to assess whether there are any unacceptable effects on the environment and human health by growing and managing GM crops," the spokesman said.