Men who felled UK's famous Sycamore Gap tree jailed for four years

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2025-07-15

London (PA Media/dpa) - The two men who felled an iconic British tree at Sycamore Gap have each been jailed for four years and three months. 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 the Northumberland landscape and had become a symbol of the English county. They were also convicted of criminal damage to Hadrian's Wall, caused when the sycamore......

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