Sycamore Gap tree cutters sentenced to prison
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Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers have been sentenced at Newcastle Crown Court for chopping down the Sycamore Gap tree - an act of vandalism that caused outrage worldwide
Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers caused 'irreversible' damage to Sycamore Gap in Northumberland National Park when they felled the iconic tree with a chainsaw
Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, have been jailed for four years and three months after cutting down the iconic sycamore tree in a fold in the Northumberland landscape.
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'