A man falsely accused of cutting down the iconic Sycamore Gap tree says he resorted to wearing a Rod Stewart-style wig in public to avoid harassment. Walter Renwick, a 69-year-old lumberjack, was ...

Pictured: the felled Sycamore Gap Tree in Northumberland Mr Renwick was released without charge but yesterday, as Daniel Graham (left) and Adam Carruthers (right) were found guilty of cutting down ...

Mr Knox is citing other high-level criminal damage cases, including an attempt to harm the "totemic" Van Gogh Sunflowers at a gallery. In that case two young women were jailed for 21 and 24 months, ...

Within hours of the world-famous Sycamore Gap tree being illegally felled, Walter Renwick found himself in a maelstrom of ...

The tree was not Britain's biggest or oldest, but it was prized for its picturesque setting symmetrically planted between two hills along the ancient wall built by Emperor Hadrian in A.D. 122 to ...

The two men were jailed for for four years and three months for felling the sycamore— estimated to be almost 200 years old.

Graham and Carruthers, who denied cutting the tree down, will be sentenced on July 15. They were found guilty after an eight-day trial at Newcastle crown court.

Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were sentenced to more than 4 years in prison for cutting down the iconic Sycamore Gap Tree in a "deliberate and mindless" act.

Former lumberjack Walter Renwick, 70, was arrested along with a teenager soon after the world famous tree was felled in ...