Friends Guilty Of Cutting Down World-famous Tree In Act Of 'Mindless Thuggery'

Two former friends have been found guilty of cutting down the world-famous Sycamore Gap tree in an act of "deliberate and mindless criminal damage".Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers drove through a storm for 30 miles in the middle of the night from their homes in Cumbria to the Northumberland landmark, where one of them cut down the sycamore with a chainsaw and the other filmed it.