Badger_Boom
Veteran
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- York
It did however affect a Scheduled Monument which is a criminal offence covered by Section 28 of the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979.
RIP - Hadrian’s wall tree
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AndyRM
XOXO
- Location
- North Shields
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Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
The phone evidence does seem fairly conclusive.
But there is still absolutely no suggestion of a credible motive for cutting it down.
It just seems to have been a laugh?
AndyRM
XOXO
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- North Shields
That makes it somehow worse.
So, what, they got wrecked one night and thought "Aye, this'll be good craic!" I don't buy that, but they've talked such utter b*llocks so far who knows what will come out in the end.
If it was for a laugh it reminds me of a few years when ago some idiots knackered the Metro for a good half a day by writing "Hang all peodos" and walking down Byker Bridge with it:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/all...-for-toplessly-protesting-nonces-on-a-bridge/
Which other than making people late was actually pretty funny, and I say that as someone who was stuck on a train that got held up by them.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
I love court sketches
They look a bit like the sketches of Burk and Hare.
Fastpedaller
Über Member
Maybe if they both get time they'll be having a good punch-up between themselves 
T4tomo
Legendary Member
read the articles..... yes they are both saying I didn't do it it was him. And each defence lawyer will say if to the jury "if you arent sure it was him the you can't find him guilty" its the trying to create to reasonable doubt defence. If they don;t blame each other then they are both likely to get convicted as acting in collusion, which is the argument of the prosecution barrister - "you planned and did it together, one of you sawed it down whilst the other filmed it."
Its hard to see them being found not guilty tbh.
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
- Craggy Island
They sound like a right couple of half - wits anyway.
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Beebo
Firm and Fruity
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- Hexleybeef
T4tomo
Legendary Member
and said film was shared from one of them's phone to the other's!
when it first happened I thought it may have been someone with some simmering feud with the National trust or pissed off with people parking to visits the tree etc. as said, its appears it just a couple of halfwits who did it because they could.
Mustn't jump to conclusions having not heard the evidence, but seems to me a likely explanation of their defence is that they think they're clever but are actually as thick as whale omelettes and have likely gone against legal advice to plead guilty for a lower sentence.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
There are sick morons and there are now sycamorons.
