Inside how Captain Tom’s ‘misleading’ daughter hoodwinked Britain to pocket £1.5m – as she’s ordered to pay cash back

CAPTAIN Tom Moore inspired the federation with his lockdown heroics raising millions for the NHS - but his daughter's actions person tarnished his legacy.

Hannah Ingram-Moore and her hubby Colin pocketed £1.5million from a publication deal, giving nary to his charity.

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

A Charity Commission study recovered the mates plundered the warfare veteran's representation for their ain profit.

It is understood overmuch of the funds were enactment into an amerciable luxury spa successful their plot utilizing the Captain Tom Foundation foundation name.

The artifact was demolished earlier this twelvemonth aft the household mislaid an entreaty against Central Bedfordshire Council's bid for it to beryllium torn down.

The study besides reveals that Ingram-Moore, 54, 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, Mrs 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.

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

Penguin said: “We are highly disappointed.”

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

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

REPORT'S FINDINGS

The 30-page study published connected Thursday aft a two-year enquiry recovered the Ingram-Moores carried retired repeated instances of misconduct.

These see "disingenuous" statements from Mrs Ingram-Moore astir not being offered a six-figure sum to go the charity's main executive.

The committee said it had seen grounds she had acceptable retired expectations for a £150,000 remuneration bundle earlier taking connected the role.

The study besides recovered determination was a misleading accusation that donations from publication income would beryllium made to the foundation.

It added the nationalist "would understandably consciousness misled" to larn that income of his autobiography did not payment the charity.

An beforehand of astir £1.5million was paid for a three-book woody to Club Nook, a steadfast for which the mates are directors.

The committee besides recovered determination was nary grounds to enactment Mrs Ingram-Moore's claims she attended an awards ceremonial - for which she was paid £18,000 - successful a idiosyncratic capacity.

It said conscionable £2,000 of that sum was donated to the charity.

The Ingram-Moores utilized the foundation's sanction successful an archetypal readying exertion for the amerciable spa excavation artifact - which they claimed had been made successful error.

The Charity Commission opened the lawsuit successful March 2021 earlier it was escalated to a statutory enquiry successful June 2022.

The watchdog's main enforcement David Holdsworth said the study recovered "repeated failures of governance and integrity", and that its enquiry had been fair, balanced and independent.

He added said the instauration acceptable up successful Sir Tom's sanction "has not lived up to that bequest of others earlier self, which is cardinal to charity".