A 38-year-old man on Wednesday denied felony harm, after one of Britain’s most-loved and photographed trees was discovered reduce down subsequent to the Hadrian’s Wall Unesco World Heritage web site.

Daniel Graham entered a not guilty plea to inflicting £622,191 (US$786,657) value of harm to the sycamore tree at Sycamore Gap, which had stood for greater than 200 years within the Northumberland National Park.

The tree, positioned in a dramatic dip within the panorama and which featured within the 1991 movie Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves, was discovered felled in September final 12 months, inflicting nationwide outrage.

Graham additionally denied inflicting £1,144 value of harm to Hadrian’s Wall, the traditional Roman fortification which stretches 118km from northwest to northeast England.

He appeared earlier than a court docket in Newcastle upon Tyne with Adam Carruthers, 31, who did not enter pleas to the identical expenses. Both wore balaclavas to disguise their identities as they arrived and left court docket.

Both had been launched on unconditional bail till an extra listening to on June 12.

The tree, which was an emblem of northeast England, gained the Woodland Trust’s Tree of the Year in 2016 and was a key attraction photographed by tens of millions of guests over time.

It was discovered felled after storms, with white paint marks on its stump, as if cleanly reduce, AFP reporters on the scene mentioned on the time.

Efforts are actually underneath manner to see if the tree might be regrown from its stump or saplings from its seeds.

Hadrian’s Wall was begun in 122 AD in the course of the reign of emperor Hadrian, and marked the boundary between Roman Britannia and unconquered Caledonia to the north. – AFP