‘It’s just a tree’: Sycamore Gap accused couldn’t understand its media interest, court hears

<p>Adam Carruthers, 32, and Daniel Graham, 39, deny felling tree and damaging Hadrian’s Wall in 2023</p><p>A man who denies felling the Sycamore Gap tree has said his interest in the story was because he could not understand why it was making so many headlines, “almost as if someone had been murdered”.</p><p>Adam Carruthers, 32, told a jury: “It was just a tree.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/may/06/sycamore-gap-tree-newcastle-court-media">Continue reading...</a>