They are accused of using a “hinge and wedge technique” to remove a section of the tree before a chainsaw was used to take it down.

Footage of the tree’s last stand showed a solitary figure silhouetted beneath the towering canopy in a struggle with the trunk as the unmistakable sound of the chainsaw whined above the wind. With a ...

Two men accused of cutting down the famous Sycamore Gap tree kept a wedge of the trunk as a trophy to remind themselves of their “moronic mission”, a jury was told.

Investigators also couldn't find a wedge of wood cut from the trunk to drop the tree in the right direction. But images on Graham’s phone showed a slice of wood and a chainsaw in the back of his ...