"Pictured:
Construction firm boss
who is accused of chopping down the 300-year-old Sycamore Gap tree.
Dan Graham, 38, has been charged with criminal damage to the iconic tree and Hadrian's Wall in an incident last September.
Graham runs his own small construction business out of a site near Carlisle in Cumbria.
He lives in a caravan by a field with horses and has a number of dogs on his land in the countryside near the city.
The offences are said to have taken place on National Trust property on 28 September last year.
Police confirmed they were the two men in their 30s who were arrested last October and released on bail pending further inquiries."
Dan Graham (pictured), 38, has been charged with criminal damage to the iconic tree and Hadrian's Wall in an incident last September.
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"Two men, 31 and 38, who 'chopped down historic Sycamore Gap tree from Robin Hood movie' to appear in court charged with criminal damage.
Northumbria Police said the men were arrested in October in connection with the incident and had been on bail since that date.
The much photographed tree, was chopped down in the dead of night in September last year,
causing a national outrage.
It was found with its upper section lying across the historic Roman barrier,
which is a World Heritage Site,
after being targeted in a
'malicious act of vandalism'.
The pair are charged with criminal damage to property of a value over £5,000, namely
'without lawful excuse, damaged a sycamore tree to the value of £622,191 belonging to the National Trust'.
They face a second charge of criminal damage to property valued under £5,000,
namely Hadrian's Wall,
with the damage assessed to the Unesco World Heritage Site as being £1,144."
Daniel Graham, 38, and Adam Carruthers, 31, will face Newcastle Magistrates' Court on Wednesday afternoon.
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