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Sycamore Gap Tree Convict Released From Jail on Tag
Carruthers was tagged and sent home after a prison governor approved release under the Home Detention Curfew scheme, officials said.
- Adam Carruthers, 33, has been released from prison under the Home Detention Curfew Scheme to serve the remainder of his sentence at home, subject to strict license conditions and electronic tag monitoring.
- In July last year, Carruthers was sentenced to four years and three months for felling the 120-year-old Sycamore Gap tree in Northumberland alongside Daniel Graham, who drove him to the site and filmed the act.
- Judge Mrs Justice Lambert mandated the pair serve 40% of their sentence behind bars, with the remainder on license; Carruthers qualified for early release after passing a risk assessment with 12 months or less remaining.
- ITV News Tyne Tees reported that Carruthers is now residing at his registered address; in an off-camera interview at a Cumbria turf business, he told the broadcaster he was happy to be out of prison.
- The 120-year-old tree, which featured in the film Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves, was felled in September 2023 in less than three minutes, sparking worldwide outrage; the pair took a wedge as a trophy that remains missing.
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