What have jurors heard this week?

The Sycamore Gap tree took more than a century to grow and only minutes to cut.

It was worldwide, standing as it did on the edge of the Roman border in northern England, and had been represented countless times in photographs, paintings and movies.

During the night of September 27, 2023, under the cover of darkness, someone cut it, causing indignation and international condemnation.

Around the last week, Newcastle Crown Court has been listening to the trial of the two men who deny the tree.

Here is something that jurors have said so far.

Prosecutors claim that Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, carried out the “Moorish Mission.”

The Prosecutor’s Office says that while knocked out the tree with one chainsaw, the other filmed it on Mr. Graham’s phone, something they both deny.

Police discovered a two -minute and 41 second video a month later, when they arrested Mr. Graham and seized their phone.

The original video is dark, only the sounds of a chainsaw followed by the fall of a tree and then the silence, broken only by the wind that blows in the remote place.

An improved version for the jury is shown, with the metadata videos that show that it was filmed around 00:30 BST in the exact coordinates of the very beloved tree.

When the police interrogated him about how the video came to his phone, Graham responded repeatedly “without comments.”

The tree was carved using a “hinge and via” technique, according to the court.

An expert in forestry said he would have been “unequivocally obvious” that he would tear down north, with the bottom of his cut trunk falling on the Roman wall and causing damage worth £ 1,144.

To facilitate the fall, a large wedge had to be cut from the trunk, that prosecutors say that the defendant played with them as a “trophy.”

An image was tasks a couple of hours later on Mr. Graham’s phone, showing a large piece of wood and chainsaw on the back of its Range Rover.

A Forensic Botanist said there was “very strong evidence” that the wedge had come from the sicomorous gap tree.

Neinder The Widge or the chainsaw have found bone by the police.

The analysis of the cell site, which tracks the movements of a mobile phone, and automatic numbers recognition cameras, which follow the progress of a car, are mentioned repeatedly.

In summary, Graham’s phone and car were monitored traveling to Sycamore Gap from his home in Carlisle before felling, then returned west later, according to the court.

A couple of front headlights were also captured in CCTV from the near twice Breed Inn directed towards Steel Rigg, the public parking closest to the tree, just before midnight, returning approximately one hour later.

Prosecutors say that Mr. Graham and his good friend, Mr. Carruthers, from Wigton in Cumbria, had bones in regular telephone contact the day, but that stopped at 22:23, he suggested strongly that they were together from then on.

The messages exchanged between Carruthers and his partner also showed that he was not at home that night, according to the court.

On September 28, 2023, the world woke up to find that the tree had been carved.

The initial speculation was that he had fallen in the storm Agnes, which had passed during that night, but quickly became a team that the tree had the leg deliberate and illegally talled, jurors heard.

The court heard that the two defendants exchanged screenshots of social media publications and press reports on their phones.

“Here we go,” Graham wrote to his coacusado.

A person had commented on Facebook that there were “some weak people walking through this land, unpleasant behavior.”

Mr. Graham sent a voice note to Mr. Carruthers saying: “Do you weak? Do you realize the heavy [stuff] Is? “

Mr. Carruthers replied: “I would like to see [the man] He launches an operation as we did last night, I don’t think he has the minerals. “

He said it was reported in multiple news channels, adding: “He will go crazy.”

Graham replied: “He has gone viral, he is around the world.”

Prosecutors said men were “delighting” indignation, but their close friendship would unravel as “public repulsion became clear to the issue.”

Until now, the jury has only heard from Daniel Graham.

He spent more than three hours in the witness box, a duration that said his “best friend” Carruthers had knocked down the tree.

Graham said he had been asleep in his caravan all night, while Mr. Carruthers and a Tok Associate his Range Rover, which also contained his phone, about Sycamore Gap and back, without his knowledge.

He said that Mr. Carruthers was fascinated with the tree and had mentioned previously that he was talked, with Graham claiming that he had never heard of the world famous tree until his coacked tolerant

Then, he said that his friend asked him to “culpate”, since the police would be more indulgent with him due to his “mental health problem”, a claim that was labeled “not true” by Mr. Carrosers’ lawyer.

Graham also admitted to having made an anonymous call to the police to point to Mr. Carruthers with his finger, claiming that he had to do it as detectives who had not figured him before.

The jury members have also heard the police interviews of two men.

In his, Graham said he was the victim of a smear campaign on Facebook, the accusations being the last exchange in a dispute with others in which he and Carruthers were wrapped.

Carruthers said he had trained used chainsaws but never a leg, adding that they were “unpleasant things” and that he could not remember a tree.

Both men deny causing criminal damage to the tree and the Roman wall.

The trial continues.