Who are the tree fellers and why did they do it?

Adam Carruthers and Daniel Graham are later sentenced to reduce the tree of the plane cavity on the wall of Hadrian in Northumberland. Who are they? And considering that they never admit it to shocking the world that shocked the world, what could be for them to do it?

Many people who knew the couple spoke to the BBC, but most of them demanded anonymity.

Among them were neighbors on the quiet street in Carlisle, where 39 -year -old Daniel Graham grew up. They remember him as a “average child” before their parents’ separation – they define it as an event “sending him from rails”.

His father Michael took his own life in 2021, while giving evidence in court about Graham’s struggles for weak mental health.

He was alienated from many members of his family, one of them, “he said he’d” fly out of anything. ”

For the last ten years, Graham has lived and worked on a land patch on the skirts of Kirkandrews-Up-Ada, just outside Carlisle.

He called it Millbeck stables and directed his company DM Graham Groundworks from the site in a secluded strip between the big country houses.

Journalist Kevin Donald described the plan as a “strange small slum”.

“There are a caravan, horses on land and columns at the entrance with lions at the summit.” He said.

Graham built a series of buildings, a stable block, horse shelter and storage unit and won planning permission For some.

In the field, he lived in a static caravan hidden behind the large metal gates containing the initials.

Harold Bowron, President of the Parish Hall Committee of the Village, said Graham was a “mysterious man, a bit strange bod”.

“There was a long fence around the site with these black doors and then black plastic coating, but there were lights all night.

“The truck is still there. Now you can see it because all plastics have fallen.”

A planning application Graham’s allowing to live on the site was rejected in April 2023 five months before the cutting of the plane cavity tree.

The council did not pay tax and it was the claim that she exhibited a “dominant and oppressive” behavior among the comments on the application.

“When the news came out, he was arrested, we weren’t surprised, Bow Bowron said.

“Everyone said, ‘Oh, yes that weird man.”

In court, the jury heard that trees were part of Graham’s work and had three or four saws.

Adam Carruthers helped him in this and the court was told that the couple was close friends.

Carruthers, Wigton, a Sunday town in Kumbria, grew up with a history extending to the Middle Ages.

His family still lives there, and Municipal Assembly Member Chris Scott described it as a place where families left roots and stayed during the generations.

Scott did not recognize Carruthers personally, but he runs a social media site for the town and remembers a “curious silence” when he was arrested.

“People weren’t discussing everything, which surprised me because it was a big story at that time.”

He said Carruthers’ childhood friend was “a little excluded” and was the last person he expected to be involved in the cutting of the tree.

The arrest was the “speech” of school friendship groups.

“We were good children to grow up,” said friend. “We couldn’t take our heads around. You never thought you’d do something like this.”

Carruthers went to the Nelson Thominson School, where another student described him as a “lonely piece”.

“He always hid to himself and in the classrooms that would not speak. Teachers would try to talk and fail.”

At the time of his arrest in October 2023, Carruthers had recently became a father and lived in a caravan with his partner at Kirkbride Airport.

Graham and Carruthers, the latter in 2021, the second, to be used for the funeral to be used for the rest of Graham’ın father of a Land Rover met.

Graham called Carruthers as a “best friend” and paid him money to help him in things and divided the money evenly.

However, his friendships were torn as the hearing developed, he said that Graham had no idea who did.

In the absence of any motivation reported, can the interactions between the couple hold clues to things that push them to saw one of the most popular trees in the UK?

After the slaughter, they exchanged messages talking about the scale of the story reporting.

In one voice, Daniel Graham cried: “It was viral, worldwide.”

Bethany Usher University of Newcastle, specializing in crime journalism, is among those who believe that the couple attracted attention.

“Social media has completely changed our way of seeing ourselves, making a video to do something is part of our experienced experience.” He said.

“What is clear from the trial is that they enjoy their interest worldwide.

“It was as if they were saying, ‘I’m attracting people’s attention, and they forgot what they did providing evidence for the police.

“The truth is that they knew that the tree was special, but they were trying to show that they counted more.”

Dr. Philip Stone, the couple, “such vindictive, immoral ecological vandalism may like to watch the distress they may arise,” he said.

“To use the expression of German psychology, some people enjoy the misfortune of others and get a sense of pleasure perverted.

“As if ‘Yeh, I will take my 15 -minute fame, but at the same time I will enjoy seeing the grief of other people’ they think.”

Hayley Graham-Hardy was among those who suffered from the loss of something very public and personal.

Sycamore was engaged to the GAP tree and after the wedding, she and her husband Lee posed for their photos there.

“The strong, flexible always there, symbolized what we want to be our tree marriage,” he said.

The couple hoped Felling was more than Carruthers and Daniel was “a little laugh”, and it was “stuck” to find out that it was the only motivation.

“To do what they did, they sent a message to each other by someone who did not have ‘minerals’.” He said.

“You do not have minerals to have what you do, and I hope this will stick to prison with you.”