THE Sycamore Gap pair will be sentenced tomorrow — and one of them will also be kicked out of his home while behind bars.
Daniel Graham, 39, has been evicted from his ramshackle property after a battle with planners.
The pair took less than three minutes to fell the tree, jurors heard at the trial[/caption]
Neighbours accused him of destroying the countryside when he turned a field into an “illegal builder’s yard” and put a static caravan in it.
When his bid to be allowed to stay there failed, locals said he was so angry it provided the motive to chop down the tree in September 2023.
He and Adam Carruthers, 32, face years in jail at Newcastle crown court after being convicted of causing over £600,000 damage to the tree and Hadrian’s Wall.
Trial judge Mrs Justice Lambert warned them after the verdict in May that they face “a lengthy period in custody”.
And in just three months Graham, 39, will be left without a home to go to when he is finally released.
His last plea to the planning inspectorate to be allowed to live in his caravan near Carlisle, Cumbria, was rejected in April.
He was given six months to find other accommodation but by then he was already on remand ahead of his trial and will also be inside when the time runs out.
A Cumberland Council spokesperson said: “A decision was taken to uphold the council’s enforcement notice.
“We are now bound by the conditions from the Planning Inspectorate.
Graham and Carruthers used a chainsaw to fell the tree in September 2023 in an act of “mindless vandalism”, their trial heard.
The men have since fallen out and blamed each other but the jury convicted them both.
Graham was on trial alongside Adam Carruthers, who also faces jail[/caption]
