Captain Sir Tom's family share regret

CAPTAIN Sir Tom Moore’s family's “deepest regret” is having a charity set up in his name, his daughter has said, as she repeated her insistence there was no intention to mislead the public over money from a book deal going to charity.

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A charities regulator report found a “repeated pattern of behaviour” which saw Hannah Ingram-Moore and her husband Colin make private gains and which the watchdog said will have left the public feeling “misled”.

Sir Tom, who died in February 2021, became a household name during the pandemic, raising millions for NHS charities by walking laps of his garden in lockdown.

But separately, a £1.4million book deal and an £18,000 awards ceremony appearance fee were among the finan-cial benefits Mr and Mrs Ingram-Moore enjoyed through their family links to the Captain Tom Foundation.

Speaking to the BBC as she prepares to publish her own books, Mrs Ingram-Moore said the charity had been set up after a family discussion about how to ensure Sir Tom's legacy, but that “in hindsight, we didn’t need to do that”.