Graham Eckerman aka Liam Kissane
A SERIAL fraudster whose vile crimes were exposed by the Daily Record is back behind bars - after callously pocketing handouts intended for injured soldiers.
Graham Eckerman has moved south and changed his identity since we caught him conning his way around Scotland.
But the 28-year-old's game is still the same - donning military uniform and posing as a war hero to dupe members of the public into handing over cash.
Now named Liam Kissane and working as a male escort, Eckerman mocked up fake ID and dressed as a Royal Marine to collect donations for military charity Help For Heroes - then stole the cash.
The heartless hustler made up to £800 a day by asking well-wishers to put cash into a tin or buy wristbands for the charity who help soldiers wounded in Afghanistan.
He was eventually caught collecting cash on the day the bodies of three soldiers killed in Afghanistan - two in suspected "friendly fire" incidents - were flown back to Britain.
His most recent escapade, in Lancashire, fell apart when an eagle-eyed passer-by noticed his boots were not standard Army wear.
The drifter is now behind bars awaiting sentence for charges of fraud, possession of a false identity document and making or supplying articles for use in fraud.
On a day when we former regulars await with sadness the name of our latest fallen comrade, this piece of human filth has the effrontery to parade his vileness in public. He is not alone and is rated alongside the cowardly politicians who gained kudos by sending the troops into the danger they are too afraid to challenge themselves. When veterans have been denied the Freedoms we fought for from a regime wholly without moral fibre, it is of little wonder that the cohesive nation has gone. This, at a time when we remember the heroics of our forefathers at Dunkirk.
Do you know how distasteful it is for MP's to scream for homosexual/lesbian rights when they deny soldiers of both sexes theirs? Underpaid troopies face the full horror of the battlefield whilst that evil apologist for Liebers Social Policy, Yvette Cooper, defends their closeting of the types of Sharon Matthews mother and the millions of others more prepared to take than to give to society. Now tell us Ms Cooper of the dubious MP's expenses returns, defend your actions to the Veterans and not your evil, divisive social champagne group, why are the Karen Matthews of multiple children to multiple fathers worth more than the decent 18year old prepared to give their own life? And tell me that this evil piece of human excrement is only mis-guided!
42 Commando Association will be meeting again in Blackpool next month. Let this worthless dross parade his tattoos for real former Royals.
