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Two men have been found guilty of criminal damage for felling a landmark sycamore tree in northern England.
Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, were each found guilty of two counts of criminal damage, one relating to the tree and the other to Hadrian’s Wall that the tree fell on, according to the UK’s PA Media news agency on Friday.
The verdict was handed down following a trial at Newcastle Crown Court in northeast England. Both men will be sentenced on July 15.
The tree had stood sentinel on Britain’s Roman-built Hadrian’s Wall for more than 200 years before being “deliberately felled” in September 2023 in what…
