The daughter of NHS fundraising hero Captain Tom Moore has made £1.5m from buying a book – giving nothing to her charity.
The Charity Commission report found that this was one of the moves by Hannah Ingram-Moore and her husband to hijack her father’s memory for their own gain.
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Hannah Ingram-Moore pocketed £1.5m from book deal – gave nothing to her father’s charityCredit: PA
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The late Captain Tom Moore with a copy of his autobiographyCredit: The Sun
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Family mansion and illegal spa building Credits: PA
Much of the money is believed to have been invested in an illegal luxury spa that Ingram-Moore, 54, and husband Colin, 67, built in their garden under the name of the charity Captain Tom Foundation.
The report also revealed that Ingram-Moore, who was blocked from paying her £150,000 salary as the charity’s chief executive, took £85,000 a year and reimbursed her own company £80,000 in expenses from the foundation.
The pair duped the public by promising royalties to the charity from its website selling merchandise.
Instead, customers were redirected to external sites that did not collect commission for good causes.
And they gave the charity £8,900 of Capt Tom gin from profits thought to be well in excess of £100,000.
Publisher Penguin has agreed to pay a £1.4m advance to the Ingram-Moores’ private equity firm for Captain Tom’s memoirs on the condition that the contribution be made to his charity.
He raised almost £39 million for NHS charities by walking 100 closed laps of his garden.
In the prologue to Tomorrow Will Be a Good Day, Captain Tom, who died in 2021 at the age of 100, wrote: “I’ve also been given the opportunity to raise even more money for a charity set up in my name.”
Only £17,000 of the fee went to charity.
The report concluded: “The public would understandably feel misled given that no donation had been made to the charity.”
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Last year Ingram-Moore wept as she told Piers Morgan that she and her husband had made £800,000 from book sales.
But the actual scale of their looting is far greater.
Retired Met boss Mick Neville condemned: “It seems greedy and mean to me.”
Charity Commission chief David Holdsworth said: “Omissions amount to misconduct and, or, mismanagement.”
The Ingram-Moores, who used the name Captain Tom to try to sell their £2.25m home in Marston Moretaine, Beds, have been banned as trustees of charities.
Penguin said: “We are extremely disappointed.”
Liz Brownsell, of law firm Birketts, said: “There is nothing to suggest fraud.
“It’s more of a moral than a legal issue.”
The Captain Tom Foundation last night demanded a refund “immediately and without the need for further action”.
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The report revealed that this was one of the moves by Ingram-Moore and her husband to hijack the memory of her father for their own benefitCredit: Getty
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