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The Big Cases
Season 1 · Episode 51
The Sycamore Gap - From Roots to Ruin
0.026mJuly 15, 2025
A single sycamore tree, growing in a natural dip in the countryside along Hadrian's Wall, came to symbolise a community. When the people of Northumberland wake to discover it has been chopped down overnight, it leads to a news story that makes headlines around the world. Who destroyed the tree at Sycamore Gap and why?
Episodes
- Episode 1The Murder of Sabina Nessa
- Episode 2Stabbed in a Sanctuary
- Episode 3The Abuser Working for MI5
- Episode 427 Years to Catch a Killer
- Episode 5Logan Mwangi: A Boy Betrayed
- Episode 6Deadly Browsing: The Lorry Driver
- Episode 7My Baby: Taken, Failed, Killed
- Episode 8The Suitcase Murderer
- Episode 9Catching The Cult Movie Killer
- Episode 10The Doorstep Murder
- Episode 11Killing My Children's Abuser
- Episode 12Killed Walking Home
- Episode 13Groomed, Radicalised, Gone
- Episode 14Found Under The Floor
- Episode 15Twenty Minutes of Terror
- Episode 16Homegrown Terrorist
- Episode 17The Lie That Destroyed a Town
- Episode 18Caught In The Crossfire
- Episode 1930 Years For Justice
- Episode 20Stephen Lawrence: The Sixth Suspect
- Episode 21Sunshine Scammer
- Episode 22Killed on Christmas Eve
- Episode 23The Killing in the Lane
- Episode 24Killed on Duty
- Episode 25Unmasking a Fugitive
- Episode 26Deadly Influence
- Episode 27The Missing Mum
- Episode 28The Commons Criminal
- Episode 29Killed By My Boyfriend
- Episode 30The Doping Ward
- Episode 31The Student Who Never Came Home
- Episode 32Killed In The Park
- Episode 33Held Captive And Left To Die
- Episode 34The Nottingham Attacks
- Episode 35The Executioner Next Door
- Episode 36The Dance Floor Murder
- Episode 37Killer in the Attic
- Episode 38The House Party Murder
- Episode 39Crushed: The Six Year Nightmare
- Episode 40The Abuser Headteacher
- Episode 41Trying to Kill Holly
- Episode 42Stabbed After School
- Episode 43Tortured Behind Closed Doors
- Episode 44My Husband the Monster
- Episode 45Killed By Kids: The Machete Murder
- Episode 46The Mistaken Identity Murders
- Episode 47Neighbour, Friend, Killer
- Episode 48The Bus Stop Murder
- Episode 49The Predator Who Fled to Paradise
- Episode 50The Aristocrat, the Convict and the Missing Baby
- Episode 51The Sycamore Gap - From Roots to Ruin
- Episode 52Murdered by his Grandparents
- Episode 53The Bodies in the Suitcases
- Episode 54The Killer They Called Family
- Episode 55Bribes, Lies and the British Politician
- Episode 56Liverpool Parade: Seven Minutes of Chaos
- Episode 57Undercover: Exposing a Terror Plot
- Episode 58The Man with the Money
- Episode 59Funeral Home Horror