A memorial to Captain Sir Tom Moore in Derbyshire has been defaced by a woman protesting against the use of private jets. A bucket of a faeces was poured over the statue in Hatton, reported the Mirror.
Captain Sir Tom Moore became well known during the Covid-19 lockdowns when he completed 100 walks around his garden as a gesture to raise money for NHS charities. He became a national hero during those difficult times, raising £32.79 million for the NHS before his 100th birthday..
However, Maddie Budd, 21, tipped a container of urine and faeces over the statue and the campaign group End UK Private Jets featured the video of the event on their social media pages.
Ms Budd, a former medical student from Wales, said: "People are going to say that he's a hero, people are going to say that this is profoundly, obscenely disrespectful to his life, and to the NHS he stood up for, and I agree.
"If we believe that the NHS is important, if we believe in taking care of each other, if we believe that NHS workers are doing essential work, why are we forcing our healthcare system into collapse? Why are we forcing our civilisation into collapse? Why is basically no one taking this genocide of all humanity seriously?
"Every time one (a jet) takes off, it pours a bucket of s**t and blood onto everything that Captain Tom stood for".
Captain Tom Moore was knighted by Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle in July 2020 and he received over 150,000 cards on the occasion of his 100th birthday. He died on February 2, 2021, at Bedford Hospital.
End UK Private Jets is a group protesting against luxurious and unnecessary carbon emissions, focusing on the use of private jets in the UK.
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