Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers chopped down the tree for a mindless 'thrill' and then revelled in media coverage. Both were jailed for four years and three months.

A great-grandmother who travelled more than 200 miles to see the Sycamore Gap vandals sentenced has said justice was not done.

Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, have been jailed for four years and three months after cutting down the iconic sycamore tree in a fold in the Northumberland landscape.

Former friends turned enemies, Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers, were convicted of criminal damage to the immensely popular Sycamore Gap tree, which they claimed was felled in a 'drunken prank'

Relatives of manslaughter victims have told of their dismay at seeing Adam Carruthers and Daniel Graham locked-up for longer than those that took the lives of their loved ones