Almost 30 newly-planted trees have been hacked down in a “clinical execution” in Newcastle.
City leaders have been left horrified after the act of vandalism at the Forsyth Road playing fields in Jesmond. The damage was discovered last week by the Freemen of Newcastle, who manage the playing fields and the neighbouring Town Moor, and is now the subject of a police investigation.
It is expected to cost around £15,000 to replace the 29 destroyed trees, which were partially chopped down on the night of Wednesday, March 29. City councillor Ged Bell told colleagues at a meeting on Tuesday that he was at a planting ceremony for the trees recently, where a member of the public turned up threatening to chop them down with an axe.
