A school principal was lucky not to be killed when a pair of drunken vandals felled a community’s iconic pine tree onto a road just seconds before he drove by. “Those people could have been up on a murder charge.”Cate Broughton/Stuff Loburn School principal Stuart Priddy seen here with students in 2016. Priddy said he had been driving to Loburn School after an alarm activated and was forced to brake suddenly when he came across the tree. He had since learnt he was the motorist to come across the felled tree. A police spokesperson said staff were called in from Oxford and arrived at 9.30pm after the tree was felled.

Source: Stuff August 29, 2021 05:48 UTC