Overview
- Adam Carruthers has left prison under the Home Detention Curfew scheme after a governor’s risk assessment, with electronic tagging and licence conditions in place.
- He was sentenced to four years and three months for criminal damage after cutting down the landmark tree beside Hadrian’s Wall, while Daniel Graham drove him to the site and filmed the act.
- Prosecutors said the felling caused about £622,191 in damage to the tree and £1,144 to the Roman wall, and a wedge removed as a trophy has not been found.
- The Ministry of Justice said tagged prisoners on home curfew must stay at a registered address under strict rules and can be sent back to custody if they breach them.
- Carruthers told ITV News he was glad to be out and had returned to work, as some locals voiced dismay over an early release in a case the trial judge called a “moronic mission.”