Captain Tom Moore's infamous daughter Hannah's controversies from £1m charity scam to spa disaster

Captain Sir Tom Moore's heroic bequest has been shrouded by his daughter's acheronian controversies.

The World War II seasoned became an overnight nationalist treasure erstwhile helium walked 100 laps astir his plot up of his 100th birthday, raising astir £39million for the NHS. His selfless enactment took clasp during the coronavirus lockdown, erstwhile the wellness work was connected its knees.

His household acceptable up the charity, The Captain Tom Foundation, and aft his bittersweet decease successful February 2021, his girl Hannah Ingram-Moore stepped into the limelight, taking the reigns of the foundation. However, she has since recovered herself successful blistery h2o connected much than 1 occasion.

Now, Hannah, 53, and her hubby Colin, 66, person been slammed by a watchdog for pocketing £1million successful his name. The Charity Commission said a probe of the instauration has uncovered repeated instances of misconduct by the pair, who person been banned from being foundation trustees.

Here, the Mirror takes a look backmost astatine the celebrated veteran's daughter's astir eyebrow-raising moments - from controversially erecting a spa astatine their household location to taking her begetter connected that vacation to Barbados...

£1.4million payout

The Commission revealed income of Captain Tom's autobiography, Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day, did not payment the foundation. In the book's foreword, helium wrote of being fixed "the accidental to rise adjacent much wealth for the charitable instauration present established successful my name".

But, an beforehand of £1.4million was paid to Club Nook, a institution of which Hannah and Colin are directors. Literary cause Bev James, who represented Captain Tom, said the mates were "very clear" they did not privation the wealth to spell to charity. The probe recovered the foundation "has not received immoderate wealth from the archetypal publishing agreement".

The Charity Commission "concluded that the nationalist had a tenable anticipation that the Captain Tom books they purchased, successful peculiar Captain Tom’s autobiography Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day, would person financially benefited the foundation and the nationalist would understandably consciousness misled fixed nary donation has been made to the charity."

"The Ingram-Moores’ nonaccomplishment to honour the donation to the foundation pursuing the archetypal publishing agreement, and the misconduct and/or mismanagement arsenic evidenced successful this report, has earnestly damaged the estimation of the charity".

Hannah antecedently broke down successful tears during an interrogation with Piers Morgan, wherever she admitted to keeping £800,000 from the income of her father's books. She explained helium wanted his household to support the wealth from the books successful Club Nook Ltd alternatively than the charity.

She told Piers: "These were my father's books, and it was honestly specified a joyousness for him to constitute them, but they were his books. He had an cause and they worked connected that deal, and his wishes were that that wealth would beryllium successful Club Nook, and successful the end..." Piers interjected: "For you to keep?"She clarified: "Yes. Specifically."

The household told Piers that they believed that anyone buying the books had nary crushed to deliberation they were donating to charity. But the Commission said contiguous the nationalist "would understandably consciousness misled" to larn that the foundation did not payment from the publication sales, and it has "seriously damaged the estimation of the charity".

Barbados getaway

Captain Tom fulfilled a lifelong imagination soon earlier Christmas 2020 erstwhile helium went connected a bucket database vacation to Barbados. But erstwhile helium caught coronavirus and died conscionable weeks aft the trip, galore questioned the decision-making down the jaunt.

The Moore household flew retired to the Caribbean Island connected December 11, with the travel arranged by British Airways and Visit Barbados to convey Tom for his selfless achievement. There, Captain Tom posed for 1 of his last photos alongside vocalist Cliff Richard and comedian Russ Abbot.

Sadly the 100-year-old seasoned died 2 months aboriginal connected February 2 at Bedford Hospital pursuing a abbreviated conflict with Covid-19 and pneumonia. Trolls blasted the household for taking Tom - who had been receiving attraction for prostate and tegument crab earlier his decease - distant astatine specified a risky time.

But past Good Morning Britain big Piers Morgan hit backmost astatine critics, defending the family: "You cognize Hannah told maine astir however it wounded them. It wounded them astatine a clip erstwhile astatine their darkest infinitesimal with their dad, their grandad. You conscionable added a small spot much despair and misery and wounded onto what they were suffering arsenic a family."

£150,000 salary

The Commission said determination was grounds Hannah acceptable retired expectations for a £150,000 wage earlier becoming the charity's main executive. It besides revealed she personally pocketed an £18,000 interest for appearing astatine an awards ceremony. Just £2,000 was donated to the foundation aft she claimed her quality astatine the Virgin Media Awards was undertaken successful a idiosyncratic capacity.

Hannah antecedently spoke connected ITV's This Morning astir the wage claims. She denied that the instauration has planned to name her main enforcement connected a wage of £150,000. "The £150,000, it's perfectly not true," she said. "What the trustees did was inquire for a benchmarking, 'If we were to employment a CEO what's the highest, what's the lowest'. The highest happened to beryllium £150,000, the lowest was astir £60,000, depending connected the charity, truthful it's simply not true."

When it came to addressing reports that the foundation paid much than £50,000 to companies tally by her and her husband, she admitted they had loaned wealth from her concern to the foundation and it was reimbursed. "We published our archetypal yearly accounts and they are independently audited and successful that archetypal twelvemonth of the charity, my concern loaned the instauration immoderate wealth due to the fact that we didn't privation to devour into the archetypal donation we had which was £100,000 from a firm donator," she said.

"And that's each we had, and we didn't privation to take that wealth for costs, truthful we loaned it connected the ground that we were lending wealth from my concern that was besides suffering during the pandemic, truthful we request to person it reimbursed. So, precise straightforward - erstwhile the foundation had a spot much money, we were reimbursed those costs and that landed america a headline, that I had fundamentally paid myself £50,000 into my ain business, which was perfectly not the case."

She continued: "I deliberation we've been incredibly naive but I don't deliberation that that means we're bad. I deliberation that we're wholesome, bully radical and we tally businesses we understand. But I deliberation we stepped into this for love, for humanity, for allowing arsenic galore arsenic radical arsenic imaginable entree to his legacy. We ne'er thought of the darkness, it never, ne'er crossed our minds."

Home spa

The Commission criticised the mates for utilizing the foundation's sanction successful a readying exertion for a spa artifact astatine the £1.2million Bedfordshire home, which housed a excavation and changing facilities. Hannah and Colin said it had been an mistake which they blamed connected being engaged "undertaking planetary media work".

The study authors said grounds suggested the mates "were utilizing the foundation and its sanction inappropriately for their backstage benefit". The £200,000 block, built successful 2021, was demolished earlier this twelvemonth aft a revised readying exertion did not diagnostic the words "charity" oregon "foundation".

Speaking astir the spa successful an interrogation with Piers Morgan past year, the TV big asked: "When I archetypal locomotion successful the archetypal happening I spot is simply a luxurious spa pool, that's got thing to bash with Captain Tom. Why are you reluctant to get escaped of it? I've asked this a fewer times now... I'll springiness you 1 past chance."

Grilling the household connected their fiscal affairs, the TalkTV big questioned: "Neither of you person ever made immoderate wealth straight from the Foundation for idiosyncratic gain?" To which Colin replied: "Not a penny."

In November 2023, the mates were told they had to teardrop down the installation for bully aft it was ruled that the outbuilding was constructed illegally. And successful January, builders arrived to commence the demolition.

A spokesperson for the Captain Tom Foundation said: "The Captain Tom Foundation is pleased with the Charity Commission's unequivocal findings regarding the Ingram-Moores' misconduct.

"We articulation the Charity Commission successful imploring the Ingram-Moores to rectify matters by returning the funds owed to the Foundation truthful that they tin beryllium donated to well-deserving charities arsenic intended by the precocious Captain Sir Tom Moore.

"We anticipation they bash truthful instantly and without the request for further action."

The Ingram-Moores said they felt "unfairly and unjustly" treated and accused the committee of "selective storytelling". They said: "A credible regulatory assemblage would supply the afloat truth, alternatively than misrepresenting, and conflating facts and timelines that align with a predetermined agenda.

"True accountability demands transparency, not selective storytelling." They said the enquiry had taken a "serious toll connected our family's intelligence and carnal health, unfairly tarnishing our sanction and affecting our quality to transportation connected Captain Sir Tom's legacy".

A lawyer for the household has antecedently indicated the foundation mightiness unopen down, and the instauration stopped taking donations successful summertime 2023. The Mirror has contacted Hannah Ingram-Moorefor comment.