Sycamore Hole Tree felling: Naked-chested ex-lumberjack arrested in reference to downing of beloved landmark says ‘I do know I am harmless’ as he returns to farm the place police discovered giant chainsaw

A former lumberjack who was arrested in reference to the felling of the beloved Sycamore Gap Tree has been bailed and declared his innocence as he returned house to a farm the place police earlier discovered a big chainsaw.

Walter Renwick, 69, was seen again at Plankey Mill Farm after being taken into custody, with photos and video exhibiting him standing topless exterior a caravan on the property.

He was bailed on Sunday afternoon and was pushed again to his campervan the place he declared his innocence, shouting: ‘I do know I am f****** harmless, proper, and that is all I must know.’ 

Mr Renwick has vehemently denied being accountable for the downing of the 300-year-old tree and seemingly stated the noticed was proof that he was utterly harmless. 

‘My chainsaw’s down right here by that barn door, however you may see that it hasn’t been used for ages,’ he stated on Friday.

The facility instrument was present in an outhouse of the Northumberland farm, simply eight miles from the place Britain’s most well-known tree stood earlier than it was cruelly lower down. 

Walter Renwick, 69, returned to Plankey Mill Farm right now after being taken into custody, with photos and video exhibiting him standing topless exterior a caravan on the property

Police have been nonetheless current have Plankey Mill Farm in Northumberland taped off after they arrested a second man after the UK’s most well-known tree was chopped down 

Police search groups taking away a chainsaw in an proof bag from a barn on Plankey Mill Farm in Northumberland

The enduring Sycamore Hole tree was felled in a single day on Wednesday, sparking fury throughout Britain

Detectives have been working across the clock to seek out out who’s behind the stunning felling of the beloved tree, which stood in a dip alongside Hadrian’s Wall.

Mr Renwick was arrested after the tree was decreased to a stump on Wednesday evening, and officers have been right now pictured leaving him on the premises.

Specialist search groups descended on the property yesterday and police have been nonetheless current right now, with cordons seen sealing off components of the farm.

Mr Renwick, who has lived on the farm his complete life, was evicted final week following a long-running dispute and now lives in a camper van close by.

In a sequence of statements, he has strongly refuted that he was behind the vandalism of the close by tree.

Reacting to social media gossip, he stated: ‘The hypothesis is bloody ridiculous. I will inform you this a lot, I would not be so unhappy to try this.’

Mr Renwick stated: ‘It was a stunning tree, an iconic tree, however I imply to go up there and lower that down, I am not that silly.’

He stated his work as a lumberjack for 40 years was probably the explanation for rife finger-pointing on-line.

Specialist search groups descended on the property yesterday and police have been nonetheless current right now

Police cordons have been pictured sealing off sections of the Northumbria farm right now

‘It makes it sound like me, does not it, as a result of it was an excellent lower,’ he stated, referring to the offender’s handiwork. 

‘It was darkish clearly nevertheless it was a stunning moonlit evening… the lower was sensible.

‘Once I say sensible, you may inform an excellent lumberjack by the way in which he cuts a tree down. I have never seen the lower clearly, however I’ve seen it on the pc.’

Northumbria Police introduced on Friday that it had arrested a person in his 60s simply hours after a 16-year-old boy was bailed out of custody below investigation in relation to the felling.

Walter Renwick (pictured at his house), 69, was lately evicted from the property

A full investigation was launched after the Sycamore Hole Tree subsequent to Hadrian’s Wall, in Northumberland, was lower down

Now decreased to a stump, the 70ft sycamore was one of many world’s most photographed timber and was named Tree of the Yr by the Woodland Belief in 2016.

It famously featured within the movie Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, starring Kevin Costner. 

A part of the Hadrian’s Wall Unesco world heritage web site, it has drawn walkers and guests from everywhere in the globe.

Northumbria Police have been contacted for remark.