Overview

• Newcastle Crown Court sentenced Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, to four years and three months each for deliberately chainsawing down the 150-year-old Sycamore Gap tree last September
• Investigators used enhanced low-light video from the perpetrators’ phones, ANPR tracking and photographs of the chainsaw and a tree wedge to directly link the men to the crime
• Northumberland National Park will exhibit the tree’s largest remaining trunk section at The Sill: National Landscape Discovery Centre as a tribute to its cultural heritage
• The National Trust has collected seeds and cuttings from the felled tree and is optimistic that more than 30% of mature seeds and half of scions will be viable for new sapling propagation
• The act caused an estimated £622,191 in damage to the tree and £1,144 to Hadrian’s Wall, and left taxpayers with an £18,674 legal aid bill for the defendants’ defence