内容摘要："For the offender's father, he's lost two of his children. He's lost his ex-wife, who he still had a good relationship with, and this has been perpetrated by his own son."

"For the offender's father, he's lost two of his children. He's lost his ex-wife, who he still had a good relationship with, and this has been perpetrated by his own son."

to point the finger at Mr Carruthers, claiming he had to as detectives had not listened to him before.Jurors have also heard the two men's police interviews.

In his, Mr Graham said, the accusations being the latest exchange in a feud with others in which he and Mr Carruthers were embroiled.Mr Carruthers said he had used chainsaws but never been trained, adding they were "nasty things" and he could not recall ever felling a tree.

Both men deny causing criminal damage to the tree and Roman wall.The trial continues.

One of the men who denies felling the world famous Sycamore Gap tree blamed his co-accused in an anonymous call to police, a court has heard.

The tree had grown in a dip on Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland for more than 100 years before it wasThe report highlighted risk assessments being completed without referencing information about child safeguarding and domestic abuse.

A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said the new government "inherited a criminal justice system in crisis" and it had plans to recruit 1,000 probation officers.The East of England probation service is one of 12 probation regions in England and covers Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, Essex, Northamptonshire, Norfolk and Suffolk.

Martin Jones, chief inspector of probation, said: “While the commitment and dedication of leaders and staff across the region was found to be unwavering, this commitment and dedication is not amounting to sufficient measures in keeping the public safe or encouraging people on probation to change.”The report found chronic staffing issues "despite a sustained effort" across the region to recruit, and said senior probation officers had "excessive workloads and vast responsibilities which were greater than what they could reasonably be expected to deliver".