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Video footage allegedly displaying the chopping down of the well-known Sycamore Gap tree has been performed to a jury.

The footage was taken on the cell phone of Daniel Graham, mentioned prosecutor Richard Wright KC, and exhibits the define of a determine working on the trunk of the tree, earlier than it lastly crashes to the bottom.

Police analyst Amy Sutherland instructed the jury at Newcastle Crown Court that the video was within the downloads on Graham’s telephone and the coordinates of the place it was filmed had been for Sycamore Gap.

Speaking to the jury through the case opening on Tuesday, Mr Wright mentioned the grainy video was filmed at 12.31am on September 28.

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Graham, 39, from Carlisle, and Adam Carruthers, 32, from Wigton in Cumbria, are each charged with two counts of felony harm regarding the tree and a bit of Hadrian’s Wall it fell on on the night time of 27 September, 2023. They each deny the fees.

On Wednesday, police analyst Amy Sutherland launched the video, which lasts two minutes and 40 seconds. She mentioned it was “in darkness” however that “sounds of a chainsaw” may very well be heard.

The video was performed to the jury twice – as soon as displaying the darkish, uncooked footage, and a second time after it had been enhanced by a police specialist.

On Tuesday, Mr Wright instructed the jury: “In simple terms, Graham’s phone was right there at Sycamore Gap as the tree was being cut down, and his phone filmed the tree being cut down.”

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