Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were convicted of causing more than £620,000 worth of damage to the tree and more than £1,000 worth of damage to Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland.
On 27 September 2023, the pair drove 30 miles through a storm to Northumberlandfrom Cumbria, where they both lived, before felling the tree overnight in a matter of minutes.
That’s reasonable - security is always context sensitive. That said there are easy steps most users can take to make their communications less easily accessible - encrypting your phone and using end to end encrypted chat - for extra safety you could use a messenger that supports disappearing messages too (even if you’re setting a long disappearance time, say 1 month).