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'
A great-grandmother who travelled more than 200 miles to see the Sycamore Gap vandals sentenced has said justice was not done.
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”.
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
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Tue, Jul 15, 2025 The pair behind the Sycamore Gap felling have been made to answer for their crime in court. Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, cut down the famous tree on Hadrian's Wall on September 27,