Who are the failers of the tree and why did they do it?

Adam Karuthers and Daniel Graham are later being sentenced to cut the sycamore gap tree on the head of the Hadrian in Northumberland. Who are they? And, given that he has never accepted the destruction that he shocked the world, can they have to do them?

The pair knew that many people talk to the BBC, but the most requested oblivion.

Among them, there were neighbors in a quiet road in Carlisla, where 39 -year -old Daniel Graham grew up. They remember her as a “average child” before their parents separated – describing that as an event that “sent her away from the rail.”

His father Michael took his life in 2021, some Graham spoke in court with evidence regarding his struggles with poor mental health.

He was separated from several members of his family, one said he would “blow the handle in anything”.

For the last decade, Graham worked on a ground patch on the outskirts of Kirkandruz-on-Aden, outside Carlisle.

He called it a millbeck stables and ran his company, DM Graham Groundworks, was located from the site on the solitary lane, among the big country houses.

Journalist Kevin Donald described the plot as a “strange peace”.

“This is a caravan, the pillars at the entrance with the horse on the ground and the lion on the top,” he said.

Graham achieved a series of buildings, a stable block, horse shelter and storage unit, planning permission For some of them.

He lived on the site in a stable caravan, which was hidden behind a large metal gate on a large scale, which included her early.

Herold Boaren, chairman of the village Parish Hall Committee, said Graham was “a man of mystery, a strange-to-one bit”.

“These were black gates and then a long fence was rounded on the site with a black plastic sheet so that you could not see inside, but had light all night lights.

“His lorry is still. You can see now because all the plastic has come down.”

A Planning application Graham was allowed to be allowed to be on the site in April 2023, cutting the Chaikmore Gap Tree five months ago.

The council was not paying tax and a claim between the applications on the application had a claim that he had displayed “major and repressive” behavior.

“When the news came, he was arrested, we were not surprised,” said Mr. Bover.

“Everyone was saying ‘Oh yes that strange bloc’.”

In court, the jury heard that the tree failing was part of Graham’s business and had three or four chainsaw owners.

Adam Karutors helped him in that work, and the court was told that the pair were close friends.

Carruthers, a market town in Cumbria, grew up in the winton, which has a history until medieval period.

Their parents still live there and city councilor Chris Scott described it as a place where families kept the roots down and stayed for generations.

Scott knew Karutors personally, but runs a social media site for the city and when he was arrested, she recalls a “curious silence”.

“People were not discussing all this, which surprised me because it was such a big story at that time.”

A childhood friend from the Karutars said that he was a “slight outbreak”, but he was also the last person he would expect to join the tree felting.

His arrest was “The Talk” of his school friendship group.

“We grew up we were good children,” said friend. “We could not find our head around it. You will never think that he would do something like this.”

Karutors Nelson went to Thomalinson School, where another fellow disciple described him as a “bit of a virgin”.

“He always lived in himself and classes, he did not talk. Teachers tried and talked to him, and failed.”

At the time of his arrest in October 2023, Karutors had recently become a father for the second time and was living in a caravan with his partner at Kirchbrid Airfield.

Graham and Karutars met in 2021, when the latter, who was a mechanic, repaired a land rover belonging to Graham’s father, so it could be used for his funeral.

Graham called Karutors his “best sail” and paid him to help him, equally divided the cash.

But the test came to light as their friendship, Graham blamed the Karuthers, who in turn said who did not know who did it.

In the absence of any declared purpose, a conversation between the pair can be interacted, which inspires them to take a chainsaw for one of the most dear trees in the UK?

After flying, he exchanged messages while talking about the scale of reporting the story.

In a sound, Daniel Graham said: “It has gone viral, it is around the world.”

Bethani Ashra of Newcastle University, who specializes in crime journalism, is among those who believe that the pair was attracting attention.

He said, “Social media has completely changed the way you see, taking a video of our own is part of our life experience.”

“What became clear from the test is that he enjoyed the attention that he attracted around the world.

“It is as if they were saying ‘I am someone, I have been attracted to people’, and they forgot that what they were doing was providing evidence to the police.

“The truth is that they knew that the tree was special, but they were trying to show that they count more.”

Dr. of Lancashire University Philip Stone, who studies dark tourism, where visitors travel to sites of death, cruelty and terror, said the pair would “have enjoyed looking at such a crisis -like crisis”.

“To use the German psychology phrase schdenfreude, some people enjoy the misfortune of others and get a sense of perverted pleasure from the response to him.

“It is as if they are thinking” this, I am going to get my 15 -minute fame, but I am going to enjoy seeing the sorrow of other people. ”

A lot of people hurt by the loss of both public and personal were Hele Graham-Hardi.

She was engaged in the Chaikmore gap tree and after her marriage, she and her husband Lee posted there for their photos.

“Strong, flexible always there, the tree symbolized what we wanted to be our marriage,” she said.

The couple hoped that “a little laugh” for felting compared to the Karuthers and Daniels and to find out “sting” to find out that their only purpose seems to be.

He said, “He sent messages to each other as to what they did ‘minerals’.”

“I would like to say to them,” You guys have not got the mineral what you did and I hope you stick to you in jail. “