Holidaymaker Alice Whysall-Price took a picture of the Sycamore Gap tree while out on a walk at about 17:20 on Wednesday 27 September 2023, jurors hear. "So we know at [that time] the tree was still standing," Mr Wright says.

The trial for two men accused of cutting down the 200-year-old Hadrian’s Wall tree opened Tuesday in northeastern England. Both have pleaded not guilty.

A court has been told that the famous Sycamore Gap tree was cut down in an “act of deliberate and mindless criminal damage.”