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2 days ago | 
newcastleworld.com | Karon Kelly
Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowA drug dealer killed a seven-year-old boy and a man in his 30s in a horror explosion caused by butane gas being used to make cannabis sweets. The enormous blast ripped through six properties in a block of 12 flats on the terraced street of Violet Close in Benwell, Newcastle, in the early hours of Wednesday October 16 last year.
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4 days ago | 
sunderlandecho.com | Karon Kelly
Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowA man who punched and then strangled his former partner until she believed he was trying to kill her has been locked up. Wayne Crawford turned up at the woman's home in Sunderland last September accusing her of having an affair.
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4 days ago | 
sunderlandecho.com | Karon Kelly
Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowA man who sexually assaulted a drunk stranger when she passed out in an alleyway after a night out has been put behind bars. Mark Hogarth told passers-by he was trying to help the woman but they realised what he was up to and stepped in to stop him.
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1 week ago | 
shieldsgazette.com | Karon Kelly
Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowThe jury in the trial of two men accused of chopping down the world-famous Sycamore Gap tree have retired to consider its verdict. Prosecutors claim Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were the pair responsible for the landmark felling in the early hours of September 28, 2023.
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1 week ago | 
shieldsgazette.com | Karon Kelly
Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowJurors in the trial of two men accused of the Sycamore Gap felling have been told to put emotions to "one side" as they consider verdicts in the case. Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, both from Cumbria, are on trial over the cutting down of the landmark tree in the early hours of September 28, 2023.
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1 week ago | 
shieldsgazette.com | Karon Kelly
Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowA man on trial for the Sycamore Gap felling has told jurors he thought it was "just a tree" but denied that he was responsible for cutting it down. Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, both from Cumbria, are accused of felling the landmark during a "moronic mission" in the early hours of September 28 2023.
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2 weeks ago | 
shieldsgazette.com | Karon Kelly
Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowOne of the men accused of cutting down the world famous Sycamore Gap tree has told jurors his co-accused confessed to the crime during a phone call. Daniel Graham has today told how Carruthers admitted he was responsible just hours after the felling - but he did not believe him.
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2 weeks ago | 
shieldsgazette.com | Karon Kelly
Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowA picture shows a "trophy" wedge from the Sycamore Gap tree and a chainsaw in the boot of a vehicle used by the suspects, prosecutors claim. Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, both from Cumbria, are accused of felling the landmark during a "moronic mission" in the early hours of September 28, 2023.
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2 weeks ago | 
shieldsgazette.com | Karon Kelly
Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowThis is the shocking moment the iconic sycamore tree was felled with a chainsaw in just over two minutes. Prosecutors claim Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, recorded the vandalism during the "moronic mission" in the early hours of September 28. The court heard a mobile phone found in a jacket belonging to Graham contained a video of the sycamore being felled.
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2 weeks ago | 
sunderlandecho.com | Karon Kelly
Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowTwo pals on a "moronic mission" filmed themselves felling the famous Sycamore Gap tree, jurors have heard. Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, both from Cumbria, used a chainsaw to take down the landmark in an act of "mindless vandalism", it is claimed.
