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A lumberjack has begged social media sleuths to leave him alone after they mistook him for a suspect in the felling of the iconic Sycamore Gap tree - because they both have the same name.
Daniel Graham, 30, from near Alnwick in Northumberland, says his phone has been blowing up with calls and texts since police charged another man named Daniel Graham, 38, from Cumbria, in connection with the tree's destruction in September.
The self-employed forestry contractor shares pictures of himself carrying out tree works to promote his business - and believes they led armchair detectives to wrongly identify him as the man named by police last night.
Speaking to MailOnline, the logger fears the mistaken identity could see his livelihood disrupted. His message to online sleuths? 'Stop pestering me.'
'No, it's not me. I'm the wrong guy,' he said on Wednesday morning, hours after prosecutors said namesake Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers, 31, had been charged with causing criminal damage to the Sycamore Gap tree and Hadrian's Wall.
Daniel Graham, 30, has been mistaken for another man called Daniel Graham, 38, who was charged in connection with the felling of the Sycamore Gap tree
Mr Graham (pictured here at work as a forestry contractor) believes social media sleuths have wrongly come after him because he shares images of himself felling trees professionally
Another Daniel Graham, who is 38 and lives almost 100 miles away, was charged alongside Luke Carruthers, 31, in connection with the felling of the Sycamore Gap tree (pictured)
Mr Graham shares images of himself carrying out professional logging jobs across the north of England on Facebook to promote his forestry contracting business
He believes photos and videos of his professional logging work have convinced armchair detectives he is the suspect
Daniel Graham - who is not the man with the same name charged in connection with the Sycamore Gap felling - has begged social media sleuths to leave him alone
MailOnline has verified Mr Graham's identity, confirming he is not the same Daniel Graham that was charged last night.
He first became aware of his namesake after getting home from work yesterday, when he found he had dozens of calls, texts and Snapchat messages from friends.
'At first it was friends taking the p*** but then people started getting in touch thinking it was me,' Mr Graham said.
'Some of it was quite nasty - people asking if it was me or just sending messages like, "Oh my god", thinking it was me.'
He suspects that wannabe social media sleuths wrongly identified him as the other Daniel Graham - of no relation whatsoever - because his Facebook is full of pictures of him carrying out professional forestry works across the north of England.
His year-round work sees him planting new trees, felling those ready to come down and preparing firewood for plantation owners - 'all things timber', as he described it to our reporter. He uses social media to share footage of himself on the job and to find new work.
'I do a lot of my business through Facebook - I'm well-known as a forestry contractor in the area,' he continued.
'So if you put in my name and anything tree-related I'm probably the first person that comes up
