Two former friends have been found guilty of chopping down the Sycamore Gap tree in an act of “deliberate and mindless criminal damage”. A video was also taken of the destruction by one of the two men ...

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The Sycamore Gap tree was felled in minutes using a chainsaw and silver spray with a wedge of the trunk 'taken as a trophy', a court has heard. Opening the trial to jurors at Newcastle Crown Court on ...

With one man holding a phone to record the tree’s notorious fall and the other working a chainsaw, a pair of vandals forever altered the landscape of a beloved section of Hadrian’s Wall in northern ...

A lawyer specialising in the protection of historic trees has compared the cutting down of Britain's beloved Sycamore Gap to murder and expressed hopes the case will 'set a new tone' for cases ...

Two groundworkers filmed themselves cutting down one of Britain's most famous trees with a chainsaw before boasting about their 'moronic mission', a court heard today. Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam ...

Two friends accused of cutting down the Sycamore Gap tree thought it would be “a bit of a laugh” and failed to foresee the public outrage, a jury heard on Wednesday. Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers ...

The vandals who cut down England’s beloved Sycamore Gap tree were sentenced Tuesday to more than four years in prison for causing irreversible damage and serious distress. The tree stood for nearly ...

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