LONDON (AP) — Two males have been charged with chopping down the favored 150-year-old Sycamore Hole tree subsequent to Hadrian’s Wall final 12 months in northern England, prosecutors mentioned Tuesday.
Daniel Graham, 38, and Adam Carruthers, 31, have been charged with inflicting prison injury and damaging the wall in-built A.D. 122 by Emperor Hadrian to protect the northwest frontier of the Roman Empire.
They have been ordered to seem in Newcastle Magistrates’ Court docket on Could 15.
The sycamore’s majestic cover between two hills made it a preferred topic for panorama photographers. It turned a vacation spot after being featured in Kevin Costner’s 1991 movie “Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves.”
The nighttime felling final fall prompted outrage as police tried to determine what impressed such an act of vandalism.
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