Nothing special about the tree. In any other location or even just viewed from a different angle, it's just a tree. A clue is in the term "Gap". It's the "gap" that makes it anything.
Is there any evidence that many people knew about it before the appearance in the film?
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Sentencing guidelines
Offence range: Discharge – 4 years’ custody
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For criminal damage over £5,000, around a fifth of offenders each received either a
community sentence, a suspended sentence, or were sentenced to immediate custody (see
figure 5). Over the last few years, the use of community sentences for this offence has
decreased, from 37 per cent in 2013 to 22 per cent in 2016
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Criminal damage over £5,000 has a higher statutory maximum sentence; six months’
custody when the offence is tried summarily, or 10 years when tried on indictment. Since
2011, the average custodial sentence length (mean) for this offence has remained within the
range of five to seven months. During the same period, the median has ranged from two to
four months.
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