A wedge removed from the famous Sycamore Gap tree, and taken away as a “trophy”, was filmed in the boot of one of the suspect’s car, prosecutors have alleged. Ground worker Daniel Graham ...

Two men accused of chopping down the famous Sycamore Gap tree kept a wedge as a trophy in a felling that prosecutors described as a "moronic mission". The tree had stood for more than 100 years in ...

The Sycamore Gap tree was felled in minutes using a chainsaw and silver spray with a wedge of the trunk 'taken as a trophy', a court has heard. Opening the trial to jurors at Newcastle Crown Court ...

Earlier in the trial, prosecutor Richard Wright KC suggested that Mr Graham and his co-accused Adam Carruthers, 32, took a wedge of the Sycamore Gap tree “perhaps as some sort of trophy”.