The tree stood for nearly 150 years before the two men carried out what a prosecutor called a “moronic mission” and cut it down in the middle of the night.

Two men face sentencing for cutting down the iconic Sycamore Gap tree near Hadrian's Wall in northern England.

The two men were sentenced to more than four years in prison for cutting down the 150-year-old tree. A prosecutor called their act a "moronic mission."