Sycamore Gap tree cutters sentenced to prison
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Former friends turned enemies, Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers, were convicted of criminal damage to the immensely popular Sycamore Gap tree, which they claimed was felled in a 'drunken prank'
The tree stood for nearly 150 years before the two men carried out what a prosecutor called a “moronic mission” and cut it down in the middle of the night.
Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers are being sentenced at Newcastle Crown Court for chopping down the Sycamore Gap tree - an act of vandalism that caused outrage worldwide
The two men who mounted a “moronic mission” to cut down the much-loved Sycamore Gap tree have been jailed for a total of eight and a half years. Daniel Graham, 39, and accomplice Adam Carruthers, 32, chopped down the tree in what they claimed was an “act of drunken stupidity”.
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