Viewing the BBC article that was linked.....gazing past the paddock gate with the helicopter hiding in the wood line to the right.....away in the distance is wha appears to my old eyes to be a rather odd looking tree with what appears to be a lot of bark missing and it leaning on about a 45 degree angle.
Do others see the same thing?
As we have no credible information at this time and we are all working on pure supposition......I would say that looks odd and let it go at that for the time being.