Yob who felled Sycamore Gap tree freed after 10 months of four year sentence

Teona Gherasim

The man who felled the Sycamore Gap tree has been freed from prison after serving just 10 months of his four year and three month sentence. Adam Carruthers , 33, was jailed in May 2025 after being convicted alongside his former friend Daniel Graham, 40. A court heard how the travelled together to fell the much-loved tree and damage to Hadrian’s Wall in September 2023. Carruthers felled the tree with a chainsaw while Graham filmed him. The pair fell out before they came to trial. Now Carruthers,

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