Captain Tom’s daughter kept £1.5m book cash intended for NHS, demanded £150k salary & built pool in garden, report finds

THE girl of NHS fundraising leader Captain Tom Moore pocketed £1.5million from a publication woody — giving nary to his charity.

A Charity Commission study recovered it was among moves by Hannah Ingram-Moore and her hubby to plunder her father’s representation for their ain benefit.

Much of the money is thought to person been ploughed into an illegal luxury spa that Ingram-Moore, 54, and hubby Colin, 67, had built successful their 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.

The mates hoodwinked the nationalist by promising royalties to the foundation from its merchandise website.

Instead buyers were redirected to outer sites wherever nary committee to bully causes was collected.

And they gave the foundation £8,900 from a Capt 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 Capt Tom’s memoir connected the knowing a publication would beryllium made to his charity.

He raised astir £39million for NHS charities by walking 100 lockdown laps of his garden.

In the prologue to Tomorrow Will Be a Good Day, Capt Tom, who died successful 2021 aged 100, wrote: “I person besides been fixed the accidental to rise adjacent much wealth for the charitable instauration established successful my name.”

Just £17,000 successful royalties went to charity.

The study concluded: “The nationalist would understandably consciousness misled fixed nary donation has been made to the charity.”

Last year, Ingram-Moore wept arsenic she told Piers Morgan she and her hubby pocketed £800,000 from publication sales.

But the existent standard of their plunder is acold greater.

Retired Met chief Mick Neville blasted: “It strikes maine arsenic greedy and wicked.”

Charity Commission main David Holdsworth said: “The failings magnitude to misconduct and, or, mismanagement.”

The Ingram-Moores, who utilized Capt Tom’s sanction to effort to merchantability their £2.25million location successful Marston Moretaine, Beds, person been banned arsenic foundation trustees.

Penguin said: “We are highly disappointed.”

Liz Brownsell, of law steadfast Birketts, said: “There is thing suggesting fraud.

“It is much a motivation than a ineligible issue.”

The Captain Tom Foundation past nighttime asked for the currency backmost “immediately and without the request for further action”.