Men who cut down Sycamore Gap tree jailed for over four year

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The two men who cut down the famous tree at Sycamore Gap out of “sheer bravado” have each been jailed for four years and three months. Former friends Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, were convicted of criminal damage to the much-loved tree, which had stood for more than 100 years in a fold in the Northumberland landscape.  Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00You took photos of the stump and chainsaw in the boot of the Range Rover.

00:04The next day you appeared to revel in the coverage of your actions in the media.

00:08This is not the behaviour of someone who was shocked and horrified by something that had happened.

00:14I'm confident that a major factor in your offending that night was sheer bravado.

00:20Felling the tree in the middle of the night and in the middle of the storm gave you some sort of thrill,

00:25as did the media coverage of your crimes over the following days.

00:28You reveled in the coverage, taking evident pride in what you had done,

00:33knowing that you were responsible for the crime which so many people were talking about.

00:39Whether bravado and thrill-seeking provide the complete explanation for what you did, I do not know.

00:45However, as I say, I'm quite sure that you are both equally culpable for the destruction of the tree and for the damage to the wall.

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