Mobile phone footage of the moment the famous Sycamore Gap tree was cut down and fell on to Hadrian’s Wall has been played to jurors.Groundworker Daniel Graham, 39, and mechanic Adam Carruthers, 32, each deny two counts of criminal damage to the tree and the wall,

Holidaymaker Alice Whysall-Price took a picture of the Sycamore Gap tree while out on a walk at about 17:20 on Wednesday 27 September 2023, jurors hear. "So we know at [that time] the tree was still standing," Mr Wright says.

Video of the shocking moment the famed Sycamore Gap tree capturing the 100-year-old tree plummeting to the ground, was today played to a jury. Friends Daniel Graham and Graham Carruthers launched a “moronic mission” to fell the historic tree in an act of “mindless vandalism” which they allegedly filmed plummeting to the ground on a mobile phone.