A watchdog found Hannah Ingram-Moore and her husband Colin benefited 'significantly' through their association with the high-profile charity.
Lockdown hero Captain Tom's daughter and her husband 'misled' the public and made 'repeated failures in integrity' as they pocketed around £1.5 million from the foundation set up in his name, according to a damning Charity Commission report.
The report revealed the grasping couple had twice been invited to 'rectify matters by making a donation to the charity in line with their original intentions as understood by those involved' but had 'declined to do so'. Captain Tom's daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore misled public and pocketed around £1.
Using the foundation’s name in a planning application for a luxury spa facility in the grounds of the family’s £2.25 million home in Bedfordshire. The Ingram-Moores claimed this was an error that occurred while both were ‘busy undertaking global media work’. The building – which was larger than agreed by Central Bedfordshire Council - was torn down earlier this year after the couple lost an appeal against the local authority’s order to demolish it.
But Lord Foulkes of Cumnock, who sat on the House of Lords Select Committee on Charities to scrutinise the Commission's activities, told the Mail: 'It's entirely right that there should be an investigation because it appears that money that was given in good faith may have been misappropriated.' Mrs Ingram-Moore resigned from her post weeks later, just before the process to appoint her as CEO began. Her husband remained a trustee until they were disqualified by the Commission in July this year.
During a planning inquiry into the family's bid for the luxury spa in the garden of their grade II listed seven-bedroom home, their barrister announced the foundation was to close. The commission cannot order the closure of a foundation.
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