Graham additionally denied inflicting £1,144 price of injury to Hadrian’s Wall

London:

A 38-year-old man on Wednesday denied prison harm, after one of many UK’s most-loved and photographed timber was discovered reduce down subsequent to the Hadrian’s Wall UNESCO World Heritage web site.

Daniel Graham entered a not responsible plea to inflicting £622,191 ($786,657) price of injury to the sycamore tree at Sycamore Hole, which had stood for greater than 200 years within the Northumberland Nationwide Park.

The tree, situated in a dramatic dip within the panorama and which featured within the 1991 movie “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves”, was discovered felled in September final 12 months, inflicting nationwide outrage.

Graham additionally denied inflicting £1,144 price of injury to Hadrian’s Wall, the traditional Roman fortification which stretches 73 miles (118 kilometres from northwest to northeast England.

He appeared earlier than a court docket in Newcastle upon Tyne with Adam Carruthers, 31, who didn’t enter pleas to the identical fees. Each wore balaclavas to cover their identities as they arrived and left court docket.

Each have been launched on unconditional bail till an additional listening to on June 12.

The tree, which was a logo of northeast England, gained the Woodland Belief’s Tree of the 12 months in 2016 and was a key attraction photographed by thousands and thousands of tourists over time.

It was discovered felled after storms, with white paint marks on its stump, as if cleanly reduce, AFP reporters on the scene mentioned on the time.

Efforts are actually beneath technique to see if the tree may be regrown from its stump or saplings from its seeds.

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