Captain Tom’s daughter ‘deeply saddened’ after human waste poured over memorial

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Captain Sir Tom Moore’s daughter has said she was “deeply saddened” that “human waste” had been poured over a statue of her late father.

Hannah Ingram-Moore said it was upsetting to see the memorial “used in this way” for a climate protest.

A 21-year-old woman has been charged with criminal damage in connection with the incident affecting the Sir Tom tribute at a nature reserve in Derbyshire.

A video posted online showed a young woman pouring brown liquid substance - which she claimed was human faeces - over the memorial in a protest against the use of private jets.

“Every time a private jet takes off, it pours a bucket of s*** and blood on everything Captain Tom stood for,” the climate activist said.

But Ms Ingram-Moore has hit out at the move to deface a memorial to her late father - who raised millions for the NHS in the Covid pandemic by doing laps around his garden - for this end.

“In reference to a protester pouring human waste over a memorial of my father, we are deeply saddened to see something that was meant to be a celebration of his life, and the causes that he stood for used in this way,” she tweeted.

On Monday, Derbyshire Police said a 21-year-old named Madeleine Budd had been charged with criminal damage.

It came a day after the young woman, from Kedleston Avenue in Manchester, was arrested by the Metropolitan Police.

She is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates Court on Tuesday.

The protest involved a sculpture of Sir Tom that was erected in Thistley Meadow in Hatton, south Derbyshire, shortly after the 100-year-old died earlier this year.

The same black silhouette tribute was also defaced last year by vandals who sprayed “IRA” on it.