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Men Who Cut Down Beloved Tree in England Get More Than 4 Years in Prison
The tree, which stood in a picturesque dip along Hadrian’s Wall, the 70-mile fortification that once guarded the northern ...
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 ...
Vandals who felled England’s beloved Sycamore Gap sentenced to more than 4 years in prison
The tree stood for nearly 150 years before the two men carried out what a prosecutor called a “moronic mission” and cut it ...
Duo sentenced to four years for ‘moronic’ killing of tree in England
The Sycamore Gap tree, a beloved symbol of northeast England located at a UNESCO heritage site, was cut down in 2023 in what prosecutors called a “moronic mission.” ...
Timeline: How the Sycamore Gap tree felling that shocked the nation unfolded as culprits jailed
The two men who felled the tree at Sycamore Gap have each been jailed for four years and three months. Former friends Daniel ...
Why the Sycamore Gap tree provoked such strong emotional reactions – a psychologist explains
The fall of the Sycamore Gap tree was more than a loss of natural beauty. It was, for many, a symbolic attack on permanence, ...
Sycamore gap tree fellers sentenced to more than four years each in prison
Two men have been sentenced to four years and three months each in prison for felling a landmark sycamore tree in northern ...