Local council described incident as ‘worst act of environmental vandalism in Lane Cove history’ Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast It began with a gardener being hired to trim grass at a harbourside mansion in Sydney – and escalated to payments being left in a shoe for the unlawful felling of hundreds of native trees in protected bushland. Now a court has fined Yi Wang $18
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