Posted on 04/30/2025 8:00:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Jury shown video of ‘Sycamore Gap tree being felled’ Footage shown in Newcastle trial of two men accused of chopping down tree on Hadrian’s Wall in September 2023
Mark Brown North of England correspondent Wed 30 Apr 2025 09.13 EDT Share A jury has been shown footage of what prosecutors say is the moment the Sycamore Gap tree crashed to the ground after being felled by a shadowy figure wielding a loud, revving chainsaw.
A court heard that the video was taken on the Apple iPhone 13 of Daniel Graham, one of two men accused of illegally cutting down the tree on Hadrian’s Wall, described by one witness as “totemic”.
The video lasts 2 minutes and 40 seconds. It shows a silhouetted figure with a chainsaw cutting into a tree. Loud chainsaw noise can be heard as well as the sound and sight of the tree toppling to the ground.
Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, have denied being responsible for cutting down the tree, which had stood in a dip on the wall since the late 19th century. They also deny criminally damaging Hadrian’s Wall.
On Wednesday Amy Sutherland, an intelligence analyst for Northumbria police, was asked about the evidence she had collated in order to produce a timeline of events.
Sutherland told the court the tree-felling video was in the downloads on Graham’s phone and she had been able to get the coordinates of where it was filmed from the metadata. She said the coordinates were for Sycamore Gap.
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England takes it’s history and markers of that history quite seriously, especially data surrounding wars and border skirmishes. Far more seriously than most Americans appear to embrace the knowledge of our own history.
This reverence to historic English battles sites has continued, while, ironically, most modern day English Governors are assisting in ignoring the significance this same history, as they foolishly welcome in illegal immigrants by the boatload.
Next he was going to trim the shrubbery at Stonehenge.
The city regularly imposes fines of AUS$5000 on cutter-owners of Mahoe trees lining Sydney Harbor.
WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH PEOPLE???
Phytopaths.
Draw and quarter the lot.
To quote my late father, "Plants are better than people."
This is proof if there ever was any.
What a beautiful tree that was. It was sickening to watch it being destroyed. It just makes no sense at all why someone would even consider cutting it down....
Were they drunk? Seems a weird thing to do.
Growing up we lived on the edge of a growing town. Dad picked best place ever for 3 boys. Behind us was a natural creek with a little water year round (full of crawdads) and 10 acres of oak trees some were 150 years old. When I was in 9th grade the new owners cut those trees down and made apartments that are a ghetto now.
That was then and to this day, heartbreaking for me.
20 years in the gaol to think about that.
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