Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were sentenced to more than 4 years in prison for cutting down the iconic Sycamore Gap Tree in a "deliberate and mindless" act.

The Sycamore Gap tree's refusal to die may have spared the "moronic" duo who felled it a far longer spell behind bars. Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were today sentenced to both serve four years and three months behind bars for chopping down the "totemic" tree.

Two men have been sentenced to four years and three months each in prison for felling a landmark sycamore tree in northern England.