Boy, 16, arrested after felling of famous Sycamore Gap tree at Hadrian’s Wall

[Morg]

Boy, 16, arrested after felling of famous Sycamore Gap tree at Hadrian’s Wall | UK news | The Guardian

The tree, believed to have been about 300 years old, was made famous when it appeared in the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, starring Kevin Costner.
Police said they believed the felling had been a deliberate act of vandalism.

 

[squeekness]

This is a legit crime. No good excuse to kill something alive that is this old unless the tree was dying already -- which it wasn't.