Sycamore Gap trial live: ‘Jeffrey, it’s gone viral’, defendant remarked after tree chopped down, court told

Now we’re listening to extra on the messages shared between the defendants the day after the Sycamore Hole tree got here down on the night time of September 27, 2023.

The jury is informed by police analyst Amy Sutherland that in a single message Graham stated to Carruthers: “Not a nasty angle on that stump”, including: “That’s clearly knowledgeable.”

One screenshot despatched by Carruthers to Graham confirmed Fb feedback with a circle round one which stated: “Judging by the standard of the reduce and measurement of tree I’d say whoever it was has information of how you can fell massive timber.”

One other video has now been proven to jurors, this time a CCTV clip taken from the Twice Brewed Inn near the Sycamore Hole.

It reveals automobile headlights coming from Metal Rigg automotive park, usually utilized by individuals visiting the Sycamore Hole tree, at 12.58am on September 28.

Police analyst Amy Sutherland has additionally stated that Daniel Graham’s telephone related to the community at 1.29am after being indifferent at 11.41pm.

Jurors at Newcastle Crown Court docket are then proven photographs of a chainsaw and a chunk of wooden taken at round 2am, with metadata exhibiting they have been taken at Graham’s dwelling.

Yesterday, it was prosecutor Richard Wright stated it was possible the piece of wooden was the wedge from chopping the tree, and it may have been stored as a trophy.

Footage performed to the jury of the Sycamore Hole tree allegedly being felled has been launched to the media.

You’ll be able to learn our full report on the video right here:

The video clip lasts two minutes and 40 seconds and recovered from Graham’s telephone was performed to Newcastle Crown Court docket twice.

As soon as exhibiting the darkish, uncooked footage, and a second time after it had been enhanced by a police specialist.

Within the enhanced black and white model, with audio of wind blowing and a chainsaw buzzing, a determine can been seen working on the trunk of the tree, earlier than it lastly crashes to the bottom.

Richard Wright KC, prosecuting, stated the unique video was enhanced by altering the distinction, placing a border across the body and brightening the movie “so it could possibly be seen extra clearly”.

Analyst Amy Sutherland launched a video to jurors at Newcastle Crown Court docket which apparently reveals the felling of the Sycamore Hole tree.

She stated it was taken from a telephone which was taken from Daniel Graham’s jacket pocket, and was two minutes and 40 seconds lengthy.

She stated it was “in darkness” however that “sounds of a chainsaw” could possibly be heard.

Ms Sutherland informed the courtroom the video was within the downloads on Graham’s telephone and she or he had been in a position to get the coordinates of the place it was filmed from the metadata. She stated the coordinates have been for Sycamore Hole.

Proof from ANPR cameras is now being introduced to the jury with police analyst Amy Sutherland taking the jury by the timeline of occasions.

She first particulars a Fb Messenger dialog between Adam Carruthers and his associate between 9.10pm and 9.30pm during which she sends him an image of their sleeping baby, which prosecutors say reveals he was not at dwelling together with his household. She additionally later asks him if he locked the gate.

Ms Sutherland confirms cell web site information and ANPR cameras on the A689 then reveals Daniel Graham’s telephone and Vary Rover have been transferring eastwards from Carlisle in the direction of Brampton that night time.

The automobile was then picked up by the identical cameras travelling again in the direction of Carlisle at 1.13am and 1.18am on September 28.

Jurors have been proven CCTV footage from a digicam on the Twice Brewed Inn which captured automobile headlights making a left flip in the direction of the Metal Rigg automotive park, which is utilized by guests to Sycamore Hole, at 11.55pm.

A press release now from Nationwide Belief basic supervisor Andrew Poad, who stated the wall and the tree belonged to the belief, and no-one had been authorised to wreck both of them.

He stated it was believed that the tree was planted within the 1800s by earlier landowner, John Clayton, “to be a function within the panorama”.

Mr Poad stated the Nationwide Belief purchased the location in 1942.

The jury has been proven bodyworn footage that reveals Computer Peter Borini strolling throughout open land to the felled Sycamore Hole tree, the place a variety of individuals will be seen standing on the scene taking images.

He tells Northumberland Nationwide Park rangers he’ll make a cordon across the space and asks members of the general public to maneuver away from the tree “so we are able to get as a lot proof as we are able to”.

The harm brought on by the falling of the Sycamore Hole tree to Hardian’s Wall may have been ‘catastrophic’, in keeping with an Historic England archaeologist.

In a press release learn out by Lee McFarlane, he stated the importance of Hadrian’s Wall was “internationally recognised” and it was designated as a Unesco World Heritage Website in 1987.

The assertion learn: “Hadrian’s Wall marks one of many frontiers of the Roman empire and the significance of the surviving stays has been recognised by (the Unesco designation).”

Ms McFarlane stated among the stones in Hadrian’s Wall have been broken when the tree was felled because it landed throughout the wall itself, Newcastle Crown Court docket heard.

She stated it was lucky the tree was nonetheless in full leaf because the crown of the tree appeared to have acted as a “cushion,” and that the harm may have been “catastrophic” in any other case.

She stated £1,144 of harm had been induced to the wall.

Tony Wilmott’s assertion stated the tree was felled throughout Storm Agnes in a single day on September 28.

A full evaluation of harm to the wall was not potential, because of the precarious method the tree lay, till it had been eliminated, he stated.

However it was clear {that a} bough had snapped and induced spalling to stones on high of the wall, he stated.