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Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, are attributed “criminal damage” that caused, with a chainsaw, the collapse of the 300 -year -old ARCE in Sycamore Gap

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The two men who carried out the “stupid mission”, as the prosecutor Richard Wright described in the Newcastle court (England), to cut down one of the most beloved and photographed trees of the United Kingdom have been sentenced to four years and three months in prison. Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, are attributed “criminal damage” that caused the 300 -year Arce of Sycamore Gap to collapse on the Adriano wall in Northumberland on a stormy September night, 2023.

The attack, with a chainsaw in the middle of the night, caused a deep sadness worldwide. It is a famous copy, especially from its appearance in the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. During the trial was the video that Graham recorded while his crotch cut the trunk. The video lasts 2 minutes and 40 seconds and a silhouette is seen cutting the tree. In the background you hear the unpleasant noise of the chainsaw until the tree falls with a crash.

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The newspaper The Guardian He points out that during the trial they showed evidence that both the phone and Graham’s car were used at the crime site. After the event, both shared newspaper holders in their messaging chats. They wanted to “laugh” and believed themselves “very funny and ready,” the prosecutor told the jury that declares them guilty. Men will be sentenced on July 15 for causing criminal damage to both the tree, worth 622,191 pounds (about 734,4000 euros), as well as the Adriano wall where it is posed, for 1,144 pounds (1,350 euros), which was also affected.

The prosecutor declared during the trial that the crime was “a meaningless vandalism,” and that the two men demonstrated a “fundamental lack of decency and courage to assume what they did.” He added: “Throughout the country and throughout the world, the reaction of every sensible person before the without sense of the Sycamore Gap tree has been of sadness and anger. Who would do something like that? Why would someone do something like that? Why take something beautiful and destroy it without any justified reason. Far from being the great men who believed to be, the others think they are quite pathetic.”

The Adriano emperor (76-138 of our era) decided, with the construction of the wall, to bet more on the defense of an empire too vast to protect itself from new enemies than by new conquests. “That line of defense became the emblem of my resignation to the conquest policy,” says the character imagined by Marguerite Yourcenar in his immortal novelAdriano memories. Twenty centuries later, Adriano’s wall continues to travel from coast to the north of England along 75 Roman miles (117.5 kilometers). The solemnity of the work inspired George RR Martin for the ice wall that separates the seven kingdoms from the wild lands in the seriesGame of Thrones.

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