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Two men have been charged with cutting down the popular 150-year-old Sycamore Gap tree next to Hadrian’s Wall last year in northern England, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Daniel Graham, 38, and Adam Carruthers, 31, were charged with causing criminal damage and damaging the wall built in A.D. 122 by Emperor Hadrian to guard the northwest frontier of the Roman Empire.

They were ordered to appear in Newcastle Magistrates’ Court on May 15.

The sycamore’s majestic canopy between two hills made it a popular subject for landscape photographers. It became a destination after being featured in Kevin Costner’s 1991 film “Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves.”

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[-] xePBMg9@lemmynsfw.com 18 points 4 months ago

I'm all for rehabilitation of criminals. But they also somehow have to repay what they took. Somehow they have to give 150 years back.

[-] Entropywins@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Will 150 saplings that are all 1 year old work?

[-] theinspectorst@kbin.social 15 points 4 months ago

150 duck-sized sycamore trees or 1 sycamore-tree-sized duck?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

I think community service planting trees is the best possible sentence for the people that did this.

[-] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

150 days planting saplings for 8 hours sounds better to me.

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