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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Michael Howie

Sycamore Gap: Friends guilty of cutting down world-famous tree in act of 'mindless thuggery'

Two former friends have been found guilty of cutting down the world-famous Sycamore Gap tree in an act of "deliberate and mindless criminal damage".

Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers drove through a storm for 30 miles in the middle of the night from their homes in Cumbria to the Northumberland landmark, where one of them cut down the sycamore with a chainsaw and the other filmed it.

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