Sycamore Gap tree cutters sentenced to prison
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The remains of a famous sycamore tree, which stood on Britain’s Roman-built Hadrian’s Wall in northern England for more than 200 years, has found a new home nearly two years after it was illegally felled.
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. Daniel Michael Graham and Adam Carruthers both from Cumbria, were jailed for four years and three months on Tuesday after filming themselves using a chainsaw to illegally fell the landmark tree by Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland.