Was not expecting someone this young. The mind boggles
Grim, god knows what would possess someone that age to do that. Is 16 old enough to prosecute fully?
A 16 year old child hiking however far with a chainsaw, to destroy a beloved National Trust site.
Lovely.
I find it so hard to believe this was just a one man job, let alone that one man being a 16 year old boy.
It’s a sycamore, it will come back and destroy the wall as an act of revenge
How stupid can you be to think this is a good idea, someone must have coerced him or he did this for ‘credibility’. What a brainless idiot.
We won’t even know his identity because of his age and he’ll barely be punished whatsoever, what a shitty day.
Grew up in the North East, it’s hard to overstate how much that tree meant to people. People proposed, spread ashes, took visiting friends/ family there, and it’s gone just because some little shithead felt entitled to destroy something that belonged to everyone.
I hope it was the parents who immediately turned him in.
Christ, a kid did this. It really will have just been an idiot boy doing it because he felt like it!
I’m floored.
If it is a 16 year old, what a sick individual. I hope to god it’s not for social media clout.
Yea a 16 year old, hiking cross country, to a single tree, with a chainsaw, to cut it down for no reason? And he had a pretty good cut aswell, should get a job as a lumberjack when he’s old enough. Not sure what possessed him to do it tho. Did he just see a photo and think, I wanna go there and chop that down then head to the nearest B&Q?
And to think just a few hours ago there were morons asking “how do you even go about catching someone who cut down a tree in a field”
Serious lack of critical thinking
It’s not just criminal damage it’s being a massive cnut as well.
We really need a “crimes against the environment” for things like this.
There’s cutting down trees illegally and then there’s cutting down trees on a World Heritage site. Double the sentence and fine then make the little shit litter pick the entire wall length, both sides, during the winter months.
Well that’s one 16 year old who knows a lot more about chopping down trees than the average 16 year old.
If it was him there will no doubt be footage on his phone, kids record everything. Was probably destined for TikTok.
I have known a few teenagers who would be capable of doing this (by that, I mean capable of physically doing it alone – not capable in terms of *wanting* to do it).
Possible scape goat given under 18, the real people doing this will be hoping they don’t get caught.
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Was not expecting someone this young. The mind boggles
Grim, god knows what would possess someone that age to do that. Is 16 old enough to prosecute fully?
A 16 year old child hiking however far with a chainsaw, to destroy a beloved National Trust site.
Lovely.
I find it so hard to believe this was just a one man job, let alone that one man being a 16 year old boy.
It’s a sycamore, it will come back and destroy the wall as an act of revenge
How stupid can you be to think this is a good idea, someone must have coerced him or he did this for ‘credibility’. What a brainless idiot.
We won’t even know his identity because of his age and he’ll barely be punished whatsoever, what a shitty day.
Grew up in the North East, it’s hard to overstate how much that tree meant to people. People proposed, spread ashes, took visiting friends/ family there, and it’s gone just because some little shithead felt entitled to destroy something that belonged to everyone.
I hope it was the parents who immediately turned him in.
Christ, a kid did this. It really will have just been an idiot boy doing it because he felt like it!
I’m floored.
If it is a 16 year old, what a sick individual. I hope to god it’s not for social media clout.
Yea a 16 year old, hiking cross country, to a single tree, with a chainsaw, to cut it down for no reason? And he had a pretty good cut aswell, should get a job as a lumberjack when he’s old enough. Not sure what possessed him to do it tho. Did he just see a photo and think, I wanna go there and chop that down then head to the nearest B&Q?
And to think just a few hours ago there were morons asking “how do you even go about catching someone who cut down a tree in a field”
Serious lack of critical thinking
It’s not just criminal damage it’s being a massive cnut as well.
We really need a “crimes against the environment” for things like this.
There’s cutting down trees illegally and then there’s cutting down trees on a World Heritage site. Double the sentence and fine then make the little shit litter pick the entire wall length, both sides, during the winter months.
Well that’s one 16 year old who knows a lot more about chopping down trees than the average 16 year old.
If it was him there will no doubt be footage on his phone, kids record everything. Was probably destined for TikTok.
I have known a few teenagers who would be capable of doing this (by that, I mean capable of physically doing it alone – not capable in terms of *wanting* to do it).
Possible scape goat given under 18, the real people doing this will be hoping they don’t get caught.