Lumberjack, 30, whose namesake was charged over the destruction of the historic Sycamore Gap tree says he fears for his business after receiving dozens of messages from people mistaking him for the suspect [Video]

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 …