Two men who chopped down iconic UK tree handed jail sentences
Wednesday, 16 July 2025 () London (AFP) July 15, 2025
Two men found guilty of the "mindless" and "deliberate" felling of one of the UK's most iconic trees, which sparked national outrage, were on Tuesday jailed for more than four years. A jury at Newcastle Crown Court found former friends Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, guilty in May of criminal damage for the 2023 felling of the tree at Sycamore Gap. It had stood for nearly 200
The two men who cut down the famous tree at Sycamore Gap out of “sheer bravado” have each been jailed for four years and three months. Former friends Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, were convicted of criminal damage to the much-loved tree, which had stood for more than 100 years in a...
The two men who cut down the famous tree at Sycamore Gap out of “sheer bravado” have each been jailed for four years and three months. Former friends Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32,..