Sycamore Gap pair quizzed over homophobic attack days before tree was felled

Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, cut down the tree at Hadrian’s Wall in September 2023 (Picture: Reuters)

The two men who cut down the Sycamore Gap tree were investigated after a man was doused in icing sugar in an alleged homophobic attack.

Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, cut down the tree at Hadrian’s Wall in September 2023.

But nine days earlier a man reported being subject to verbal abuse and attacked with icing sugar at a layby in Cumbria.

He told the BBC...