The tree stood for nearly 150 years before Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers set out on what a prosecutor called a 'moronic mission' to fell the majestic sycamore.

Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were sentenced to more than 4 years in prison for cutting down the iconic Sycamore Gap Tree in a "deliberate and mindless" act.

The two men were sentenced to more than four years in prison for cutting down the 150-year-old tree. A prosecutor called their act a "moronic mission."