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Sycamore Gap tree took more than a century to grow and less than 3 minutes to fell, prosecutors say
A court has been told that the famous Sycamore Gap tree was cut down in an “act of deliberate and mindless criminal damage.” ...
2 men convicted of cutting down England’s iconic Sycamore Gap tree in ‘mindless act of destruction’
Two men were convicted Friday of cutting down the beloved Sycamore Gap tree in northern England in 2023 in an unexplained act of vandalism that caused widespread outrage.
2 men guilty of cutting down world-famous tree at Hadrian's Wall | Hanomansing Tonight
Two men have been found guilty of felling the world-famous Sycamore Gap tree at Hadrian’s Wall in the U.K. The tree, which ...
Prosecutor says Sycamore Gap tree cutters committed 'arboreal equivalent of mindless thuggery'
Two men who cut down the beloved Sycamore Gap tree did it for a laugh, a prosecutor said Wednesday as he provided a motive ...