
Two men on a “moronic mission” cut down Britain’s ‘Sycamore Gap’ tree two years ago, felling the much-loved landmark whose dramatic silhouette featured in a Hollywood movie and was photographed by tourists from around the world, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
The sycamore, estimated to be almost 200 years old, stood at the centre of a dramatic dip in the landscape alongside the historic Hadrian’s Wall in northern England, making it