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Sycamore Gap vandals ‘quizzed over homophobic attack’
Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were arrested in 2023, but not charged, after sugar was thrown into a car at a lay-by used ...
When is sentencing in the Sycamore Gap criminal damage case?
Adam Carruthers and Daniel Graham were found guilty of felling Northumberland's iconic Sycamore Gap tree at Newcastle Crown ...
Sycamore Gap tree fellers ‘suspects in homophobic assaults inquiry’
Cumbria Police said two men were quizzed in 2024 after they received two reports of assault motivated by hate.
Sycamore Gap pair were quizzed by police over homophobic attacks days before chopping down iconic tree
Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, were arrested after a bag of icing sugar was hurled into a man's car at a layby used by gay men seeking sexual encounters.
Sycamore Gap pair quizzed over homophobic attack days before tree was felled
The two men who cut down the Sycamore Gap tree were investigated after a man was doused in icing sugar in an alleged ...
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Calls for tough justice after two men found guilty of 'revolting' felling of Sycamore Gap in Northumberland
The leader of Northumberland County Council has branded the felling of Sycamore Gap a “revolting” crime after two men were ...
Sycamore Gap sentencing to be televised in July as two guilty men could face jail time
The sentencing of Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers, the two men found guilty of felling the iconic Sycamore Gap tree, will ...
Remarkable history of felled Sycamore Gap tree from film icon to bitter feud
Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were convicted this week after being found guilty of cutting down Northumberland's famous ...
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UK court convicts duo of felling historic tree
An English court found two men guilty on Friday of the "deliberate and mindless" felling of one of the UK's most iconic trees ...
How Sycamore Gap fellers went from friends to foes
Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were best mates when they illegally felled the much-loved Sycamore Gap tree together. How ...
'Revenge' after a planning dispute over ramshackle caravan home..or a souvenir for newborn baby girl? The motives behind Sycamore Gap felling as two vandals face y…
Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers drove through a storm for 30 miles in the middle of the night from their homes in Cumbria ...
‘Get the saws warmed up’: Pair guilty of felling Sycamore Gap tree
The court was shown evidence that either put the men near the tree at the time it was felled, or showed them excitedly discussing it the next day as the story of the tree’s demise went viral.