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Damning evidence that led to the arrest of men who chopped down Sycamore Gap tree as they're sentenced to four years in prison
Northumbria Police obtained a host of key evidence which proved Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were responsible for chopping down the Sycamore Gap tree.
Why Sycamore Gap tree fellers' crime was as unique as the iconic Northumberland landmark itself
This is a fairy tale about trees. It has good knights and shadowy rogues and great gnarly oaks and elms of Olde England. But ...
Men Who Cut Down Beloved Tree in England Get More Than 4 Years in Prison
Two men were sentenced to prison on Tuesday for felling Britain’s beloved Sycamore Gap tree in 2023, an act that a judge said ...
Two men who cut down Sycamore Gap tree in act of ‘sheer bravado’ jailed
Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers showed no emotion as they were jailed for damaging the Sycamore Gap tree at Newcastle Crown ...
Two Men Sentenced to Prison for Cutting Down Historic U.K. Tree In What Prosecutors Dubbed a 'Moronic Mission'
Two men, 32-year-old Adam Carruthers and 39-year-old Daniel Graham, were sentenced to four years and three months in prison ...
Sycamore Gap vandals admit cutting down beloved tree at sentencing
Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers previously testified at trial that they had nothing to do with the vandalism, but a ...
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How a ‘single strand of intelligence’ brought down the Sycamore Gap tree fellers
Amid the national outrage over the chopping down of the Sycamore Gap tree, the responsibility of finding the vandals fell ...
Sycamore Gap latest: Vandals who chopped down iconic tree both jailed for more than four years
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 ...