One of two former friends on trial for cutting down the Sycamore Gap tree had a “fascination” with the tree and thought it would be “a good trophy,” his co-accused has told a court.
Daniel Graham said Adam Carruthers had spoken of wanting to cut down the much-loved tree beside Hadrian’s Wall, keeping a piece of string in his workshop he had used to measure its circumference, and ordering a chainsaw he said was “big enough” for the job.
