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Police officers stand on duty at the edge of a cordon around the felled Sycamore Gap tree, along Hadrian's Wall, near Hexham, northern England on September 28, 2023. [File, AFP]
An English court found two men guilty on Friday of the "deliberate and mindless" felling of one of the UK's most iconic trees, an incident that sparked national outrage.
A jury at Newcastle Crown Court found former friends Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, guilty of criminal damage for the 2023 felling of the tree at Sycamore Gap.
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