Two men were convicted this Friday, May 9 by a British court that knocked down the Sycamore GAP GAP tree, a legendary tree near the Hadrian wall, in the north of England, an act that had caused a great emotion in the country.
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Faced with the prosecutors of the Newcastle Court Curt, the two men, who had denied their actual participation, said they wanted to “laugh a little” when cutting the famous 150 -year -old tree in September 2023. which is, according to the allegations, “the arboreal equivalent of an insane act of brutality.”
The two men have not shown emotion to the announcement of the decision of the Newcastle court. They will be established in their judgment on July 15.
“A trophy”
Graham and Carruthers are accused of going by car in the middle of the night and then walking 20 minutes to the site, before filming the tree. A video and photos of the tree killing were transmitted during the trial, giving arguments to the accusation of the two men. The latter had also maintained a piece of the tree.
According to prosecutor Richard Wright Kc, “it was perhaps a preserved trophy of the scene to remind them of their actions, acts that seem to have delight.” The two convicts did not give any explanation about the slaughter of the tree “and could never be justifiable,” said Northumberland police superintendent Kevin Waring.
According to prosecutor Richard Wright, the two men “eliminated” from the media coverage of the slaughter, which dates back to congratulations for a story that has become “viral”, since this isolated tree between two hills in a spectacular landscape of Northumbria, was loved by the general public.
The damage caused to this tree is estimated at more than 622,000 pounds (more than 724,000 euros), and those suffered by the neighboring Hadrian wall, a Roman site classified by UNESCO, with 1,144 pounds (1,350 euros).
Source: BFM TV
