Sycamore Gap was considered one of the most photographed trees in England and was voted as English Tree of the Year in 2016. Responding to the sentencing, a National Trust spokesperson said: “As the ...

It was voted English “Tree of the Year” in 2016. Graham, 39, and Carruthers, 32, once close friends who had a falling out since their arrests, denied taking part in the act, claiming they were ...

The vandals who cut down England’s beloved Sycamore Gap tree were sentenced Tuesday to more than four years in prison for causing irreversible damage and serious distress. At such a critical moment in ...

The most widely-used ‘restorative justice’ programme, which brings prisoners face-to-face with victims to show the harm ...

Two men who cut down England’s beloved Sycamore Gap tree have been sentenced to over four years in prison. The tree stood for nearly 150 years near Hadrian’s Wall before it was felled in ...

But that history came to an abrupt end on the morning of Sept. 28, 2023, when the well-loved tree was found on its side, sliced by a chainsaw. Now, two English men have been convicted for the crime.

Two men face sentencing for cutting down the iconic Sycamore Gap tree near Hadrian's Wall in northern England. The tree stood for nearly 150 years. It was illegally felled in September 2023 ...

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.

Sycamore Gap was considered one of the most photographed trees in England and was voted as English Tree of the Year in 2016.

FILE - Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis, shining over the Sycamore Gap tree, on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland, England, July 3, 2016. (Owen Humphreys/PA via AP, File)/PA via AP) ...

It was voted English “Tree of the Year” in 2016. At trial, the two men testified they were at their homes on the night in question and had nothing to do with destroying the tree.