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KEY EVENTS
Mark Brown
The courtroom was cleaned because the session was now in Chambers.
This means that the discussions are excluded from the public opinion and there is no access to the press or public.
The couple fell into the tree in the early hours of 28 September 2023 storm Agnes’s angry.
None of them Graham What Carruthers At a hearing on May 9, 2025, he showed a visible feeling because guilty decisions were made.
A jury saw this as a “rose ve, and then it was“ revived ”because the crime was in the headlines around the world. They thought of themselves “big or funny or clever”.
Graham and Carruthers were convicted of criminal damage to the tree and Hadrian’s wall, which was damaged when he fell into the Çınar monument.
To detain both men, Mrs. Justice Lambert He said they could face a “long period of time in prison at the hearing in May.
Mark Brown
Trial judge, Mrs. Justice Lambert, He briefly came to court and said that he was a prosecution and defense lawyers. An application to bring Graham and Carruthers to court with handcuffs.
Lawyers representing both men now left the courtroom to talk to their customers.
The court opens for a punishment trial
Mark Brown
The officials at Newcastle Crown Court began to take people to court at 10.45 hours for punishment.
There are about a dozen more journalists in the seats used by a dozen journalists and the jury in the press banks.
The general gallery is also full.
Opening Summary: Sycamore GAP pair facial grave
Welcome to the scope of Günaydın and Guardian’s punishment hearing for Sycamore GAP cutting bag.
39 -year -old former friends Daniel Graham and 32 -year -old man Carruthers will be sentenced to a very popular plane tree, which has been standing for more than 100 years in the landscape, after being sentenced to criminal damage.
They were also convicted of criminal damage Hadrian’s wall, Çınar appeared when it fell on the ancient monument.
The maximum sentence for criminal damage has been for 10 years and whether it is a heritage or cultural asset between aggravating factors and evidence of a wider impact on society.
Mrs. Justice Lambert Will punish the couple in custody after their hearings in May Newcastle Crown Court.
Until this point, one summary of the case is as follows:
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The couple used a saw to cut the tree next to Hadrian’s wall. Northumberland, Storm Agnes was angry in the early hours of September 28, 2023.
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Graham’s Range Rover Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras September 27, 2023 night between Carlisle and Sycamore GAP and return early the next morning. Mobile phone watched up to phone poles To make the same journey.
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When the police arrested the couple and called Graham’s phone, Two minutes and 41 -second video showing that the plane tree was cut He was sent to Carruthers on September 28 at 12.30.
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Them He took a wedge from the tree as a cup This was never saved and He revived in the media, The next day, he showed that the story was talking about the “wild” and “viral” with messages and voice notes between Graham and Carruthers.
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Richard Wright KC, Prosecution, the couple to the jury members “Moronic task” To cut the turning point, traveling from their homes in Kumbria for more than 40 minutes, moving their equipment to pitch black Moorland during the storm in September 2023.
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Graham and Carruthers were found guilty of criminal damage at the hearing on May 9, 2025. It took five hours for the jury to reach the decisions unanimously.
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When he pulled the couple back, Lambert said that they might encounter a long time in custody ”.
