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One of Britain’s most famous trees, a sycamore that stood in a dip in Hadrian’s Wall, was cut down this week in what the authorities described as “an act of vandalism.”
The authorities said they arrested a 16-year-old boy on Thursday and a man on Friday in connection with the case. The Northumbria Police said the unidentified man, described as being in his 60s, and the teenager were both helping officials in their investigation.
“The senseless destruction of what is undoubtedly a world-renowned landmark — and a local treasure — has quite rightly resulted in an outpour shock, horror, and anger throughout the North East and further afield,” Detective Chief Inspector Rebecca Fenney-Menzies said on Friday. “I hope this second arrest demonstrates just how seriously we’re taking this situation, and our ongoing commitment to find those responsible and bring them to justice.”
The police have previously said that they believed that the beloved tree, known as the Sycamore Gap tree, “had “been deliberately felled.”
Inspector Fenney-Menzies said that the investigation remained in its early stages.
Voted Tree of the Year in 2016 in the Woodland Trust awards, the Sycamore Gap tree, located about 100 miles southeast of Edinburgh, was several hundred years old and was featured in the 1991 film “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves,” starring Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman.
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The felled tree at Sycamore Gap, beside Hadrian’s Wall, on Thursday. The authorities said they had arrested a teenager and a man in connection with what they described as an act of vandalism. Credit…Owen Humphreys/Press Association, via Associated Press
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