Two men charged over felling of Sycamore Gap tree

https://news.sky.com/story/two-men-charged-over-felling-of-sycamore-gap-tree-13126298

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7 Comments

  1. Glad they think they’ve found who did it. But what I really want to know is why

  2. callsignhotdog on

    >Several dozen seeds have been grown in a special peat-free compost mix after they were washed and checked for disease.

    >They are due to appear at Newcastle Magistrates’ Court on 15 May.

    What’d the seeds do to get hauled in front of a Magistrate?

  3. It’s great they were caught. But I wonder if it would be a good thing to not make public *how* they got caught. I guess the culprits never expected to be found out and the detectives must have had some way of tracing them. Not making their methods known would deter future crime like this. It had seem like an impossible crime to solve when it happened last year.

    Edit: unless they were completely idiotic and left obvious clues in which case do make it public, as that would be a good laugh

  4. We need a good judge who will throw the hook at them. If they are found guilty of course.

  5. ConradsMusicalTeeth on

    Ah, only two then? And there was me tinking it was tree fellas from Dublin