Homeowner’s 200-year-old sycamore is mysteriously poisoned by saboteur who drilled holes in it and injected poison… after neighbours complained about 100ft-high tree ‘blocking light’

When the majestic 100ft sycamore in her garden started turning brown, Jill Sarchet immediately became suspicious. Neighbours had complained the 200-year-old tree blocked their light, but she pointed out that a preservation order protected it. Clearing a path through the undergrowth, the mother-of-two was shocked to discover dozens of holes had been drilled into its trunk and a foaming liquid injected. Homeowner Jill Sarchet, 51, from Burnley, became suspicious after some branches and leaves on her protected 100ft-tall sycamore (left) turned brown. Later, she inspected it closely and found holes in the trunk (right) Now experts have warned the tree has been poisoned and there is a ‘very high chance’ it will die. Yesterday the 51-year-old said she had reported the attacks to police, blaming a disgruntled neighbour. ‘This behaviour is totally unwarranted and unnecessary,’ she said. ‘To think that someone is creeping into my garden either when I’m not at home or at night to carry out this kind of malicious behaviour is devastating. I now lay in bed wondering if someone is out there.’ Mrs Sarchet, a receptionist, has lived in her £200,000 detached house in the village of Worsthorne-with-Hurstwood, near Burnley, for nine years. Arborists now say there… Read full this story

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