Ms Sutherland is explaining to the jury how she compiled the sequence, in particular collecting information from the mobile phones of the defendants.

The sequence starts with a 12 minute and 40 second-long phone call from Mr Carruthers' phone to Mr Graham's mobile shortly before 08:45 BST, followed by messages in which Mr Carruthers said he had a tree to "come down" and Mr Graham replying: "Send me a picture and I'll get it sorted."

Mr Wright previously said it was not believed those messages were about the Sycamore Gap tree.

Mr Carruthers also sent a message saying there was going to be a "big storm" that night, adding: "We might get on to storm damage, get saws warmed up."

Having heard the read statements from the National Trust, Historic England and the last person to see the tree intact, the trial is now moving on to the sequence of events.

This is a document prepared for the jury which, as the name suggests, acts as a timeline and details information such as call logs from the defendants' mobile phones.

It is being presented by Amy Sutherland, an intelligence analyst with Northumbria Police, who produced the sequence of events.

She is working through it with prosecutor Richard Wright KC.

Andrew Poad, the National Trust's general manager for Northumberland coast and Hadrian's Wall, said the tree was "world famous" and had been "unlawfully felled".

He said "no-one had the right or permission to cause damage to the tree", with the land owned by the National Trust and the tree being a "possession" of the organisation.

He said within farm tenancy agreements, the rights to trees and woodlands along the wall were retained by the National Trust.

Mr Poad said the "iconic" tree was planted in the 1800s by previous landowner John Clayton to be a "feature in the landscape".

He said the National Trust bought it on 10 December 1942 and had looked after it ever since.

Earlier, jurors were shown this bodycam footage from the first police officer to arrive at the scene.

PC Borini said there were already multiple people at the site when he got there at about 11:30 BST on 28 September 2023.

Ms McFarlane said a repair cost of £1,144 for the wall had been calculated by National Trust, including repointing, micro-grouting, materials and staff hours.

She said many staff hours had been spent assessing the wall and removing the tree, totalling £6,350 for Historic England.

Lee McFarlane, an inspector of ancient monuments for Historic England said the area where the tree fell was known technically as Hadrian's Wall and associated features.

It was designated a scheduled monument under a 1979 act, and its "significance" as a frontier of the Roman Empire was given international recognition when it got Unesco World Heritage site status on 1987, she said.

She said it was "fortunate" the tree was in full leaf at the time, as the canopy enabled it to "come gently to rest" on top of the wall.

But, she said, a bough hit the wall "with some force" causing several stones to fracture and spall.

Mr Wilmott said the tree had fallen northwards across the wall, with the bulk of it being supported by its canopy.

He said it had been "illicitly felled" under the cover of darkness and Storm Agnes which blew through the area that night.

He said it was supported at two points by the wall on stones standing proud of the "consolidated" top of the wall.

He said there was minor "spalling" of the two stones, with the "very careful" removal of the tree meaning no further damage was caused.

He said winches and cranes were used while lumberjacks delimbed the tree, before it was lifted off the wall and cut into 2m-long sections for removal.

Tony Wilmott, a senior archaeologist for Historic England, investigated the damage to the wall.

He said Sycamore Gap got its name in the 1980s from the tree in the cleft of the wall.

He said the site was "picturesque" and had become one of the most prominent and appreciated feature in Northumberland, a symbol of the county with an unmistakeable profile.

The place had become totemic, he said, adding it was a place of marriage proposals, family visits and even location of ashes for deceased individuals.

"In short, the place is much loved by many thousands of people," Mr Wilmott said, adding its reputation was "spread worldwide" by its inclusion in the 1992 film Robin Hood Prince of Thieves.

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Mr Everard said a hinge-and-wedge cutting technique had been used to fell the tree.

He said felling a tree was a "precise" business and it would have been "unequivocally obvious" which way the tree was going to fall, namely across the wall.

He said a notch was made on the wall side of the tree to guide the direction of its fall, then a large cut made on the opposite side of the trunk caused it to topple.

The silver paint found on the trunk would have been used as a guide for the cutter, he said.

In a statement read by Ms Brown, Forestry Commission worker Ian Everard said it was an offence to fell trees without a licence unless an exemption applied.

He said he had worked for the Forestry Commission for more than 36 years and at the time was covering the Yorkshire and North East area.

Mr Everard said he was made aware of the felling during a team meeting on the morning of 28 September and visited it to take measurements on 3 October.

Several sections had been removed by Northumbria Police for forensic testing, he said.

PC Borini said he scoured the area of the tree for the "chock", which must have been cut out of the trunk to dictate the way the tree would have fallen.

He said it could have been a "sizable" part of the trunk, but he could not find it at the scene.

He said the incident had been reported at 09:39 and he parked at Steel Rigg car park and get to the site on foot, arriving at the tree 11.36.

Jurors have just been shown the footage filmed from PC Borini's body-worn camera.

In it he can be heard asking people to step back and calls in for more officers to arrive.

The first police officer to arrive at the scene, PC Peter Borini, said there were already multiple people at the site when he got there at about 11:30 BST on 28 September 2023.

He said he knew the area well and was "well aware of the importance of the tree" to the local community and visitors.

He said members of the public were taking pictures and park rangers were "visibly shocked and upset".

PC Borini said the tree was situated in a hollow in the land and had fallen northbound across the wall, silver spray paint having been daubed on the base before a smooth cut was made with a long-bladed chainsaw.

He took samples of the tree bark and painted areas, the court hears.

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We are starting with the witness statement of Alice Whysall-Price, a holidaymaker who is thought to be the last person to take a picture of the tree intact.

It is being read out by prosecutor Rebecca Brown.

Read evidence has been agreed by all parties and negates the need for a witness to actually come to court and be quizzed, Mrs Justice Lambert explains to the jury.

Ms Whysall-Price says she visited Sycamore Gap at about 17:20 BST on 27 September 2023 while walking the length of Hadrian's Wall, having started at the western end on Monday 25 September.

She said the weather was "awful" with wind and rain and a storm expected, but she took pictures of the tree before heading to a nearby hostel.

Erica Witherington
Reporting from Newcastle Crown Court

Yesterday, Newcastle Crown Court's courtroom one sat in silence as a short video came to end.

For two minutes and 41 seconds, the whine of a chainsaw had reverberated through the speakers, ending with the large crash of a falling tree.

In the grainy footage shown to jurors, a dark figure could be seen crouching at the base of a large tree, holding what appears to be a saw.

The prosecution say this video showed the very moment the Sycamore Gap tree was felled.

It was a deeply impactful moment in court.

The jury was shown the video during the prosecution’s opening, where they were given an overview of the Crown’s case against Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers.

We don’t know which day this video will be shown again in actual evidence - but when it is, we expect the Crown to release the footage to the media.

So in the next few days, you should have the chance to see it for yourself.

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Over the course of about two and a half hours, prosecutor Richard Wright KC opened the case to jurors.

As part of that, a short video filmed on one of the accused's phones was shown which Mr Wright said was the moment the iconic tree was felled.

The phone belonged to Daniel Graham and was tracked travelling towards and away from the site, with the metadata showing the video was filmed at the exact coordinates of the tree and Mr Graham's Range Rover was also caught on cameras in the area.

Prosecutors said the accused took a wedge out of the tree home as a trophy from their "moronic mission", with photos being taken of it in the back of Mr Graham's car.

In the aftermath and as the world reacted with outrage, the pair exchanged multiple messages discussing the reaction.

Mr Wright said they were "revelling" in the impact their actions had had.

Both men deny causing irreparable damage to the tree and also to the Roman wall, several stones of which were broken when the tree came down.

Good morning and welcome to our coverage. The second day of the trial of two men accused of felling the world famous Sycamore Gap tree is due to begin imminently at Newcastle Crown Court.

Technically this is actually the third day as it started on Monday with the jury being sworn in, but yesterday it began in earnest with the prosecution opening the case.

Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, both from Cumbria, each deny two counts of causing criminal damage to the tree and the Roman wall, which was struck by the falling timber.

The prosecutor is Richard Wright KC and today he will start presenting evidence to the jury, yesterday having been an overview of what the prosecution say the case is about.

The trial has finished for the day and the jury has been sent home and so our updates from the trial have been paused.

You can read a summary of what has happened so far on this page and also in the story here.

The second day of the trial will start at 10:30 BST on Wednesday.

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The trial is due to last for 10 days and, when it resumes tomorrow morning, will move on to the presentation and interrogation of evidence.

Although the jury has been shown videos and photographs and heard voice notes, they have not actually been presented with any evidence yet and will be shown all those materials again with deeper explanations and context given.

Just to recap what has happened so far, prosecutor Richard Wright KC has opened the case over the course of about two and half hours (with a short comfort break).

He said the tree at Sycamore Gap on Hadrian's Wall had stood for more than a century and many people from across the world held it in "high affection".

Overnight on 27 September 2023 it was illegally felled, irreparably damaging the tree itself and also fracturing stones on the Roman wall.

The "moronic mission" took just minutes to complete with a wedge cut of out of the trunk as part of the felling taken away as a "trophy".

The prosecution say Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers, both experienced tree fellers, are responsible, but they deny their involvement.

Footage appearing to show the moment of the felling was recorded on Mr Graham's phone while his Range Rover and mobile were also detected travelling to and from the remote site.

In the aftermath and as the world reacted with shock, the pair shared multiple messages discussing the reaction in which they appeared to be "revelling" in what they had done and the outrage it had sparked.

Prosecutor Richard Wright KC has now ended his opening to jurors.

The trial is pausing for the rest of the day and will resume tomorrow morning.