Two French tourists who each chose to stay in jail rather than pay $4000 fines for burning a quokka on Rottnest Island have been released from Hakea Prison.
A Department of Corrective Services spokeswoman said Thibaud Jean Leon Vallet, 24, and his cousin Jean Mickael Batrikian, 18, had served their seven-day sentences that were deemed the equivalent of paying the fines.
They were released about 11.30am on Thursday after entering last Friday.
Fairfax Media reported on April 12 that the men had been charged with animal cruelty after using a lighter and aerosol spray can as a homemade flame thrower to singe the quokka.
It is estimated that taxpayers were billed about $12, 670 for their week-long incarceration.