Two men have been sentenced to four years and three months each in prison for felling a landmark sycamore tree in northern England.

Readers have had their say on whether they think the sentence of the pair who felled the Sycamore Gap tree was too lenient. The Sycamore Gap tree had stood proudly in the Northumberland National Park for around 200 years.

LONDON (AP) — Vandals who cut down England’s beloved Sycamore Gap tree were sentenced Tuesday to more than four years in prison for damaging the country’s natural heritage and for the outrage and distress they caused.