CUTTING down the beloved Sycamore Gap tree was the “arboreal equivalent of mindless thuggery”, a jury has heard. And the two former pals accused of doing it “weren’t the big men they ...

LONDON — Two men who cut down the beloved Sycamore Gap tree did it for a laugh, a prosecutor said Wednesday as he provided a motive for the first time to explain the senseless crime that shocked ...

(AP Photo/Scott Heppell, File) FILE - Forensic investigators from Northumbria Police examining the felled Sycamore Gap tree, on Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland, England, Sept. 29, 2023.

Prosecutors allege a video was filmed of the moment the Sycamore Gap tree was felled Two men chopped down the world famous Sycamore Gap tree as a "bit of a laugh" and then feared becoming public ...