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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Mark Brown North of England correspondent

‘It’s just a tree’: Sycamore Gap accused couldn’t understand media interest, court hears

Pair at Newcastle crown court
Daniel Graham, left, and Adam Carruthers are jointly charged with causing damage to the tree worth £622,191. Photograph: Elizabeth Cook/PA

A man who denies felling the Sycamore Gap tree has said his interest in the story was because he could not understand why it was making so many headlines, “almost as if someone had been murdered”.

Adam Carruthers, 32, told a jury: “It was just a tree.”

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