Almost 300 years, the Sycamore Gap Tree (or Robin Hood Tree) It is one of the most iconic elements of Northumberland National Parkin United Kingdom. The tree grew next to the wall of Adriano, was one of the most photographed in the country and had won the Boom of the Year of England in 2016.
In 2023 However, The tree was cut during the night in an act of vandalism. The fact had a major impact; He became international news and found thousands of people in the country.
National Trust He removed seeds and cuttings from the tree, which then transferred to them Plant Conservation Center To work, from these, in the Robin Hood Tree Recovery.
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Now two men were convicted this Friday by a court in Newcastle (northeast of England) of the caps of the Centenary Sicomor known as the “Robin Hood Tree”, which was next to Adriano’s Wall, in Northumberland in 2023.
Daniel Graham, 38, and Adam Carruters, 31, were also declared responsible for causing criminal damage to both the tree, worth 622.191 pounds (734,406 euros), as well as the Adriano Wall, raised by the Romans, with 1,144 pounds (1350 euros) after it was played on that felten.
He Sycamore Gapname the tree had, became famous when he appeared in the 1991 in the Film starring Kevin Costner «Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves» y It had become one of the most photographed in the country.
Prosecutors, who baptized the perpetrators as a “strange couple”, because the friendship they maintained led them to “all together,” said “Although the tree had grown for more than a hundred years, it was irreparably the work of minutes irreparable«.
Graham and Carruthers led in the middle of the night in the middle of a storm for 50 kilometers from their houses in Cumbria (Noord -England) to Northumberland, where One of them spoke the tree while another answered him with his phoneAccording to the story.
When they were arrested, The agents who were found on their phones, the video that tested their faultLike messages in which there was the edited, who called “the operation last night”, as a “wild” act that would become viral.
But when the trial started, 18 months after his arrest, his friendship “collapsed, according to officers of Justice, and Graham accused Carrosers of having brought his off -road vehicle and his mobile phone to the place that night without his knowledge.
He also said that he had now returned to his former friend because his company, a mechanical workshop, was influenced by hoods, which caused a shock in the United Kingdom.
Carruthers, however, denied it and told the court that he did not understand the stiring caused by history and said that “It was just a tree«.
The conviction with which they are confronted for criminal damage will be announced on July 15According to British media. Ephe