Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were convicted of causing more than £620,000 worth of damage to the tree and more than £1,000 worth of damage to Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland.
On 27 September 2023, the pair drove to Northumberland from Cumbria, where they both lived, before felling the tree overnight in a matter of minutes.
The pair each denied two counts of criminal damage to the sycamore and to Hadrian's Wall, which was damaged when the tree fell on it, but were convicted by a jury at Newcastle Crown Court.
The Sycamore Gap tree sat in a dip in the landscape and held a place in pop culture, featuring in the 1991 Kevin Costner film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
It also formed part of people's personal lives, as the scene of wedding proposals, ashes being scattered and countless photographs.
Footage of the moment the tree was felled was played during the trial.
In the clip, the sound of a chainsaw can be heard, and the silhouette of a person can be seen, before the trunk eventually tumbled.
The footage was shot on Graham's iPhone 13, with the metadata providing the coordinates of the tree.
Part of tree kept as 'trophy'
Over the course of the trial, the pair blamed one another, but the prosecution argued they were both responsible for what the court heard was a "mindless act of vandalism".
As well as the video footage of the felling, an image of a piece of wood and a chainsaw was found on Graham's phone.
Richard Wright KC, prosecuting, told the court: "This was perhaps a trophy taken from the scene to remind them of their actions, actions that they appear to have been revelling in."
The jury was also played voice notes the pair had sent one another, commenting on the media coverage the incident was receiving.
In one of them, Graham, 39, said to 32-year-old Carruthers: "Someone there has tagged like ITV News, BBC News, Sky News, like News News News", before adding: "I think it's going to go wild."
Another piece of evidence was a photo of the defendants felling a different tree, about a month before the Sycamore Gap was cut down.
The prosecution said Graham, who owned a groundworks company and Carruthers, who worked in property management and mechanics, were "friends with knowledge and experience in chainsaws and tree felling".
From the beginning, much of the trial focused on the significance of the tree, with Judge Mrs Justice Lambert telling the jury to put their "emotion to one side" before proceedings began.
'Enormity of the loss'
Reflecting on the verdict and the actions of the pair, Tony Gates, chief executive of Northumberland National Parks Authority, said: "It just took a few days to sink in - I think because of the enormity of the loss.
"We knew how important that location was for many people at an emotional level, almost at a spiritual level in terms of people's connection to this case."
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The tree's stump still sits by Hadrian's Wall, where new shoots have been emerging, while its largest remaining section will go on display at the National Landscape Discovery Centre in the Northumberland National Park later this year.
The effort to preserve the tree's legacy also goes beyond the region where it stood.
Forty-nine saplings taken from the tree have been conserved by the National Trust. They will be planted in accessible public spaces across the country as "trees of hope", which will allow parts of the Sycamore Gap to live on.
The defendants, who didn't react when the verdicts were delivered, will be sentenced in July.
Baroness Harman, the former Labour Party chair, told Sky's Electoral Dysfunction podcast that this would hand the group a "progressive win" rather than simply "protesting and annoying Sir Keir Starmer" over winter fuel.
Earlier this week, a number of MPs in the Red Wall - Labour's traditional heartlands in the north of England - reposted a statement on social media in which they said the leadership's response to the local elections had "fallen on deaf ears".
They singled out the cut to the winter fuel allowance as an issue that was raised on the doorstep and urged the government to rethink the policy, arguing doing so "isn't weak, it takes us to a position of strength".
Labour's decision to means test the policy has snatched the benefit away from millions of pensioners.
But Baroness Harman said a better target for the group could be an overhaul of George Osborne's two-child benefit cap.
The cap, announced in 2015 as part of Lord David Cameron's austerity measures, means while parents can claim child tax credit or Universal Credit payments for their first and second child, they can't make claims for any further children they have.
Labour faced pressure to remove the cap in the early months of government, with ministers suggesting in February that they were considering relaxing the limit.
Baroness Harman told Beth Rigby that this could be a sensible pressure point for Red Wall MPs to target.
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She said: "It could be that they have a kind of progressive win, and it might not be a bad thing to do in the context of an overall strategy on child poverty.
"Let's see whether instead of just protesting and annoying Sir Keir Starmer, they can build a bridge to a new progressive set of policies."
Jo White, the Labour MP for Bassetlaw and a member of the Red Wall group, suggested that her party's "connection" to a core group of voters "died" with the decision to means test the winter fuel payment for pensioners.
"We need to reset the government," she told Electoral Dysfunction. "The biggest way to do that is by tackling issues such as winter fuel payments.
"I think we should raise the thresholds so that people perhaps who are paying a higher level of tax are the only people who are exempt from getting it."
A group of MPs in the Red Wall, thought to number about 40, met on Tuesday night following the fallout of local election results in England, which saw Labour lose the Runcorn by-election and control of Doncaster Council to Reform UK.
Following the results, Sir Keir said "we must deliver that change even more quickly - we must go even further".
Some Labour MPs believe it amounted to ignoring voters' concerns.
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One of the MPs who was present at the meeting told Sky News there was "lots of anger at the government's response to the results".
"People acknowledged the winter fuel allowance was the main issue for us on the doorstep," they said.
"There is a lack of vision from this government."
Another added: "Everyone was furious."
Downing Street has ruled out a U-turn on means testing the winter fuel payment, following newspaper reports earlier this week that one might be on the cards.
Oghenochuko 'Ochuko' Ojiri, 53, has pleaded guilty to eight counts of failing to make a disclosure during the course of business within the regulated sector, contrary to section 21A of the Terrorism Act 2000.
Westminster Magistrates' Court heard he sold art to a known Hezbollah financier to a value of about £140,000.
The art dealer has also appeared on the BBC's Antiques Road Trip.
Prosecutor Lyndon Harris said Ojiri sold art to Nazem Ahmed, a suspected financier of Hezbollah.
"At the time of the transactions, Mr Ojiri knew Mr Ahmed had been sanctioned in the US," Mr Harris told the court.
"Mr Ojiri accessed news reports about Mr Ahmed's designation and engaged in discussions with others about his designation."
"There is one discussion where Mr Ojiri is party to a conversation where it is apparent a lot of people have known for years about his terrorism links."
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Ojiri "dealt with Mr Ahmed directly, negotiated the sales of artwork and congratulated him on those sales," according to Mr Harris.
Each count Ojiri faced related to an individual sale of artworks, which were sent to Dubai, UAE and Beirut.
Ojiri, from west London, has been bailed ahead of his sentencing at the Old Bailey on 6 June.
He was ordered to surrender his passport and not apply for international travel documents.
"He is not a flight risk," Gavin Irwin, mitigating, told the court.
"The fact that he is here - he has left the UK and has always returned knowing he may be charged with offences - he will be here on the next occasion."
The news comes a day after the Pakistan Super League (PSL) moved the remainder of its season to the UAE after a drone fell within the Rawalpindi Stadium complex, which Pakistan says was from India.
An IPL statement read: "The remainder of ongoing IPL 2025 suspended with immediate effect for one week.
"The decision was taken by the IPL Governing Council after due consultation with all key stakeholders following the representations from most of the franchisees, who conveyed the concern and sentiments of their players, and also the views of the broadcaster, sponsors and fans."
Tensions between India and Pakistan across the line of control around the region of Kashmir have boiled over this week, leading to fears of a wider conflict.
Overnight, artillery exchanges between the two nuclear-armed countries were reported across the frontier in Kashmir.
The IPL attracts many of the top players in the world and has an estimated viewership of 500 million people.
"Further updates regarding the new schedule and venues of the tournament will be announced in due course after a comprehensive assessment of the situation in consultation with relevant authorities and stakeholders," the Board of Control for Cricket said in a statement.
"While cricket remains a national passion, there is nothing greater than the nation and its sovereignty, integrity, and security of our country," the BCCI added.
The England and Wales Cricket Board said on Friday morning there has been regular dialogue with the 10 English players involved in the IPL.
Jos Buttler, Moeen Ali, Jofra Archer, Liam Livingstone, Phil Salt, Jacob Bethell, Will Jacks, Reece Topley, Sam Curran, Jamie Overton have all featured this year.
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The developments come weeks after 26 tourists were shot dead by gunmen in Indian-controlled Kashmir last month. In response, India carried out missile strikes in Pakistan and Islamabad-administered parts of the disputed region.
On Wednesday, India said it hit nine "terrorist infrastructure" sites, while Pakistan said it was not involved in the April attack and the sites were not militant bases.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has since vowed that India will "now have to pay the price" for their "blatant mistake," and skirmishes have also been reported along the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
The comments by leader Mette Frederiksen are the latest in the ongoing row over Donald Trump's efforts to push for US control over Greenland, which is a semi-autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.
They come after reports in US media that Washington's spy agencies have been told to focus on Greenland, including on the island's independence movement, and sentiment around US extraction of its mineral resources.
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On Thursday, Denmark's foreign minister summoned the US ambassador to address the reports in The Wall Street Journal.
Tulsi Gabbard, the US director of national intelligence, did not deny the stories, which Ms Frederiksen referred to as "rumours", but did condemn those responsible for leaking classified information.
Ms Gabbard said in a statement that she had made three "criminal" referrals to the US justice department over intelligence community leaks.
The Wall Street Journal "should be ashamed of aiding deep state actors who seek to undermine the President by politicising and leaking classified information", she said.
"They are breaking the law and undermining our nation's security and democracy. Those who leak classified information will be found and held accountable to the fullest extent of the law."
In March, Greenland's prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, said Washington was "not getting" the country.
Greenland, a huge, mineral-rich Arctic island, is a self-governing territory of Denmark - a NATO ally of the US.
Mr Trump has said he wants to annex the territory, claiming the US needs it for national security purposes.
In March, a White House official said Greenland's supply of rare earth minerals would power the next generation of the US economy.
Speaking to Sky News' US partner network NBC News that month, Mr Trump said that military force was not off the table with regards to acquiring Greenland.
He said: "I think there's a good possibility that we could do it without military force", but warned: "I don't take anything off the table."
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Greenland's residents and politicians have reacted with anger to his repeated suggestions, with Danish leaders also criticising them.
Mr Nielsen was speaking days after US Vice President JD Vance visited Greenland with his wife Usha and senior US officials.
Mr Vance went to an American military base on the island and claimed Denmark has "not done a good job" in relation to the territory.
He said: "Our message to Denmark is very simple: you have not done a good job by the people of Greenland.
"You have underinvested in the people of Greenland, and you have underinvested in the security architecture of this incredible, beautiful landmass filled with incredible people."