SAS hero who battled terrorists in Kenyan hotel siege has revealed his identity after ‘Walter Mittys’ kept impersonating him on social media

BCF : An SAS soldier who fought terrorists in a Kenyan hotel siege while off-duty has been forced to reveal his identity after people kept impersonating him on social media and in pubs near the elite force’s Hereford base.

The Special Forces veteran, who uses the pseudonym Chris Craighead on Instagram, shared a photograph showing his face for the first time. The image shows Craighead leading Kenyan security forces towards the luxury DusitD2 hotel in Nairobi in 2019 before storming the complex and defeating al-Shabaab terrorists.

In previously published pictures, his features were hidden - either by clothing or the blurring of images -  to protect his identity after he ended the terror siege on the hotel which left at least 21 people dead.

But now, Craighead has decided to post an image showing his face because the 'actions of others have forced my hand'. A close friend of Craighead told MailOnline that the SAS veteran made the decision because people were impersonating him on social media and on the streets of Hereford. 

The source said Craighead has also received threatening messages on social media saying 'I know who you are' and 'I know what you look like' after images circulated online.    Given that the images of him were becoming 'increasingly available', Craighead wanted to have the power to share the first image of his face. 

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