Residents of one Mitcham cul-de-sac are up in arms after a neighbour hacked into a historic lime tree, apparently in anger over resin dripping onto his car. The century-old tree , a cherished part of the community on Rustic Avenue, is now so badly damaged that it will have to be removed.

“We care about our trees, so we felt really violated,” said long-time resident Resina Chowdhury. “Just to think someone has done this to a hundred-year-old tree. Even if we get a replacement, it’s going to take a long, long time for anything to fill the void.”

Resina told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) how her daughter witnessed the attack on August 6: “She was doing a piano lesson with a neighbour at the time, and she saw the tree being cut with a chainsaw. I heard all this noise, and

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