Twisted sycamore trees reach towards the sky offering shelter to bats and foxes in Teucheen Wood, a centuries-old woodland on the outskirts of Erskine in Renfrewshire, beloved by the community as a tranquil haven for walks and woodland crafts.
Now, though, the six-acre site, which is surrounded by Inchinnan village on one side and a new housing development on the other, is plagued by a mysterious serial tree killer. “It’s like a homemade murder plot,” Maggie Morrison, the development officer for Inchinnan Development Trust, which owns the woodland, said.
In July last year a tree on the northern edge was found with its top branches apparently removed with a chainsaw. Four sycamore trees in the same area now appear to have been deliberately poisoned, experts
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