Two former friends have been found guilty of cutting down the world-famous Sycamore Gap tree in an act of "deliberate and mindless criminal damage".
Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers drove through a storm for 30 miles in the middle of the night from their homes in Cumbria to the Northumberland landmark, where one of them cut down the sycamore with a chainsaw and the other filmed it.
Newcastle Crown Court heard the pair then kept a wedge of the trunk as a trophy and spent the next day "revelling" in news reports about their "moronic mission".
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