Captain Sir Tom Moore's family face growing anger after probe finds £1m black hole in charity fund

Captain Sir Tom Moore's daughter, Hannah Ingram-Moore, and her hubby Colin were criticised by the Charity Commission, which said determination had been "repeated failures of governance and integrity"

The girl of lockdown leader Captain Sir Tom Moore is facing mounting choler aft a charity watchdog recovered she pocketed astir £1.5million from a publication deal.

The Charity Commission contiguous criticised Hannah Ingram-Moore, 53, and hubby Colin, 66, successful a study which said they gained important fiscal payment from the Captain Tom Foundation, which was acceptable up successful 2020. A probe launched aft the Second World War veteran's decease aged 100 successful 2021 uncovered "repeated failures of governance and integrity".

The foundation watchdog said determination had been a misleading accusation that donations from income of Captain Tom's publication would spell to the foundation. However proceeds of a £1.4million publication woody were alternatively paid to the couple's institution Club Nook. The study said nary donation had been made to the charity.

Neighbours contiguous told however they watched arsenic the household became "greedy" - undermining the unthinkable £39million fundraising thrust which had led to Captain Tom's knighthood successful 2020. Small concern proprietor Sam Barnes said, referencing Captain Tom's foundation fundraising during the Covid-19 pandemic, that "it was bully erstwhile it happened".

"When it was each going connected it was bully for the village," said the 34-year-old, who lives adjacent to the Ingram-Moores successful Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire. "Then we soon realised they were cheating the strategy somewhere, got greedy early."

But helium said helium "couldn't truly attraction little immoderate more", adding: "They're not going to spell to jailhouse oregon person to repay it." Retired information serviceman Dave Miller, 75, said "it's conscionable a shame". "Maybe if she gave fractional of it to foundation oregon thing cipher would beryllium hounding her," helium said.

Much of the wealth is thought to person been ploughed into an amerciable luxury spa that built successful the Ingram-Moore's plot utilizing the Captain Tom Foundation foundation name. The study besides reveals that Ingram-Moore, blocked from paying herself a £150,000 wage arsenic foundation CEO, took £85,000 a twelvemonth and reimbursed her ain steadfast with £80,000 successful costs from the foundation.

And the mates gave the foundation £8,900 from a Captain Tom gin from profits thought to beryllium good implicit £100,000. Publishers Penguin agreed to wage a £1.4million beforehand to the Ingram-Moores' backstage institution for Captain Tom's memoir connected the knowing a publication would beryllium made to his charity.

The Ingram-Moores said successful a household connection that the publication steadfast "paid Captain Sir Tom a fee, it was his and helium decided what to bash with it". They stressed that they "never took a penny" from nationalist donations erstwhile Sir Tom raised £38.9 cardinal for NHS charities by walking laps of his plot during the coronavirus lockdown, and that the books were separate.

There was nary reply astatine the Ingram-Moore household location today, with an intercom astatine the gross ringing done to a voicemail service.