Rosa Lister
speaker
157 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Jul
Rosa Lister’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 1.
Appearances
You'd get people taking photographs of the tree because it's covered in snow and it looks so, so, so good.
I was driving to work and as I came over the hill, you would normally see the photographers all over Sycamore Gap.
And then, on this specific day, there was no one there anymore.
For about a month, nobody had any idea who had felled the tree.
Then, acting on a tip, the Northumbria police brought in two local men, a mechanic named Adam Carruthers and his friend, a tree surgeon named Daniel Graham.
Six months later, the two men appeared at Newcastle Magistrates Court.
They walked in together, a united front, wearing balaclavas to avoid the cameras outside the courthouse.
The two men were charged with criminal damage amounting to 623,335 pounds, over 800,000 American dollars.
According to prosecutors, this extraordinarily specific figure was arrived at, in part, using something called the Capital Asset Value for Amenity Tree System, a method local governments use to calculate the worth of trees.
Graham pleaded not guilty, while Carruthers entered no plea.
In the intense media coverage that followed, reporters and commentators struggled to come up with plausible reasons why the two men, or indeed anyone on earth, would have felled the tree.
Some sort of ancient act of revenge or a grievance against the local government, possibly?
Was it a protest, perhaps, driven by very left-wing ideas or else very right-wing ones?
A case could be made for either.
The explanation, whatever the hell it might be, would surely emerge at trial.
The Sycamore Gap trial began in late April of last year.
There was Carruthers, the young family man, dressed in a shiny black suit that was too big for him, blinking and swallowing and staring hard into the middle distance.
And there was Graham, gaunt and guarded and fizzing with tension.
He was only a few years older than Carruthers, but looked old enough to be his dad.
A senior High Court judge, Justice Christina Lambert, had been appointed.
Showing 21–40 of 157 · page 2 of 8
← Previous
Next →