London - On a dark and stormy night, this is a vivid and grainy video. The last shot of the famous Accessible Tree begins with the rumbling of the wind and is then replaced by the sound of a chainsaw breaking.

The last two minutes and 41 seconds of the Majestic Tree's black and white video was presented to evidence at Newcastle Crown Court on Wednesday that two men were charged with criminal damage for cutting down trees and poured them on the wall of ancient Hadrian.

It has a rare glimpse of the crime in the alleged crime operation, with the culprit cutting into the trunk of the beloved tree on September 28, 2023.

The last 24-second excerpt of the mobile video released by Crown Prosecution Service shows singles under the towering canopy. The shaky footage shows people the struggle with the old tree, tilting the task when saw and wind cracks.

Then, with a snapshot, the chainsaw stopped and when the tree started to fall, the man took a step back. It takes more than five seconds to fall into the earth, representing about 150 years.

According to testimony from Northumbria Police Department intelligence analyst Amy Sutherland, the video was found on a phone in the pocket of Daniel Graham's coat. Metadata places the position of the lens on the nycamore Gap.

Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, pleaded not guilty to two counts of criminal damage. The tree is worth more than 620,000 pounds (about $830,000), and the damage to the wall is a UNESCO World Heritage Site assessed at 1,100 pounds (nearly $1,500).

Graham, who works in the small construction business, denied being involved, prosecutor Richard Wright said at the opening ceremony Tuesday.

Wright said Graham was involved with another man and Carruthers, who told police that he was a mechanic and maintained the property. But Carruthers denied anything about vandalism and said he was not at the crime scene.

Wright said the defendant began a "ridiculous mission" in "intentional and unconscious act of criminal damage." He said the two left a lot of evidence and boasted about their feat the next day as news of the tree's demise came across the globe.

Prosecutors said they couldn't say which man worked in the saw and who filmed the act, but everyone was equally culprit.

Both men have chainsaws, Wright said, and both sometimes work together. A video found on Graham's phone showed them cutting down a large tree about six weeks before the chimney gap incident.

The discovery of the fallen tree quickly became the news the day after it was cut and reverberated and echoed and caused a national commotion.

"This place is loved by thousands," said Tony Wilmott, a senior archaeologist in historic England, in his written testimony to the court.

This tree is not the largest or oldest in England, but its majestic canopy takes root perfectly along the distance of ancient walls built by Emperor Hadrian in 122 AD to protect the northwestern border of the Roman Empire, attracting generations of followers.

The tree became famous after it appeared in Kevin Costner's 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, a huge attraction for tourists, landscape photographers and people to capture selfies for social media.

“Its clear features have been repeated in many media and therefore has become a graphic,” Wilmott said. “It has become where marriage proposals, family visits and even ashes are located.”