Men who felled UK's Sycamore Gap tree sentenced to prison.

[edbermac]

I posted this thread on DU yesterday about a Nantucket man who cut down his neighbor’s trees in order to get a better ocean view for his house.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1018&pid=2200239

And today I come across this story. The stupidity of some people never ceases to amaze me.

Two men have been sentenced to four years and three months each in prison for felling a landmark sycamore tree in northern England.

Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, were both found guilty of two counts of criminal damage in May, one relating to the tree itself and the other to Hadrian’s Wall that it fell on, according to the UK’s PA Media news agency.

The pair were sentenced in Newcastle Crown Court in northeast England on Tuesday.

The tree had stood sentinel on the Roman-built Hadrian’s Wall for more than 200 years before being “deliberately felled” in September 2023, in what authorities at the time called an “act of vandalism.”

Handing down the sentence, the judge said the pair acted with “sheer bravado” and “revelled in the media coverage” their criminal act engendered.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/sycamore-gap-tree-fellers-sentenced-144519751.html

[Aristus]

1. I hope it was worth it, dickheads.

If someone takes a chainsaw to you in prison, we can call that justice.

[markodochartaigh]

2. And there is the tragic tale of Prometheus

https://www.nps.gov/grba/learn/historyculture/the-prometheus-story.htm

[wendyb-NC]

3. Soulless bastards

[mwmisses4289]

4. Glad these idjits are going to jail, though I think they should have gotten at twenty years.

My understanding is that the there is a shoot coming up where the old tree is.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. They look like such losers.

[Demovictory9]

6. Yep..was huge story when it happened

[LudwigPastorius]

7. For two guys who don't like wood,...

they're really headed to the wrong place.