Two men have been found guilty of criminal damage, for the felling of the iconic Sycamore Gap tree in Northumbria. Constance Kampfner sat through the trial, in which the prosecution called what Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers had done, ‘a moronic mission to cause mindless vandalism.' The men were remanded in custody for their own protection after the verdict was announced. 

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Guest: Constance Kampfner, Northern Correspondent, The Times.

Host: Luke Jones 

Producer: Hannah Varrall and Shabnam Grewal 

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