Two people are responsible for the distinguished GullyOn a dear landmark Hadrian wallThe sentence is sentenced on this Tuesday in Newcastle Crown Court.
Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthures Used a chainsaw Bring down the 150 year old sycamore Within three minutes, with one Recording the actForever is changing the northern England scenario.
Claimed in two cases of criminal damage in May in MayHis fate now rests with the judge. Justice Christina Lambert has warned Graham and Karutors that they can withstand “long term in custody”, as each calculation punishes up to 10 years behind bars.
Richard Wright Casey of the prosecution told the gamblers that the pair were engaged in a “moral mission” to cut the landmark, traveling for more than 40 minutes from their homes for more than 40 minutes. CambriaThen in September 2023, during a storm, carrying its devices to the pitch Black Murland.
One of them filmed the Act, although who did what, and why, never explained, with the prosecution case claiming that each encouraged the other.
He took a wedge from the tree as a trophy, which was never recovered and revealed in media coverage, as the news of barbarity caused national and international headlines.
Was a symbol of the tree NortherlandThere was a site of countless family trips and was painted in Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman, Robin Hood: Prince of thieves,
Its destruction filmed on mobile phones took less than three minutes.
The maximum punishment for criminal damage is 10 years and growing factors include whether this was done to evidence of a heritage or widespread impact on the cultural property and community.
When he sent the pair, Mrs. Justice Lambert said he could face “a long period in custody”.
The defendants were once close, working together, working together, but have come out after their arrest and each has come to blame the other.
Graham’s Range Rover was picked up between automated number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras Care And on 27 September 2023, Cyamore Gap at night, and is returning early next morning. His mobile was detected for phone masts that traveled the same.
When the police arrested the pair and searched Graham’s phone, they found a video of two minutes and 41-second, in which the sycamore was cut on September 28 at 12.30 pm and sent to the Karutars.
The next day the message and voice notes between Graham and the Karuthers showed him talking about the story going “wild” and “viral”.
During the trial, Graham claimed that the Karutors had an attraction with sycamore, he said that he had described it as a “most famous tree in the world” and talked about the desire to cut it, even to keep a piece of string in his workshop that he used to measure its circumference.
The Karutars denied this and told the court that he could not understand the story’s displeasure, saying that it was just a tree.
Was owned by trees and walls National trust And a spokesperson said: “Unnecessary flying of the sycamore gap tree shocked people in the country and abroad and people in the country and abroad, demonstrating powerful relations between our natural heritage.”