A woman protesting against the use of private jets has poured a bucket of faeces over a memorial to Captain Sir Tom Moore in Derbyshire.
The campaign group End UK Private Jets featured the video on their social media pages, which shows a campaigner carrying out the act.
Maddie Budd, 21, tipped a container of urine and faeces over the statue of the late Captain Tom in Hatton, Derbyshire, DerbyshireLive reports.
Captain Sir Tom Moore became well know during the Covid-19 lockdowns, when he completed 100 walks around his garden as a gesture to raise money for NHS charities.
The centenarian raised £32.79 million for the NHS before his 100th birthday.
Maddie Budd, a former medical student from Wales, carried out the act in a protest against the continued use of private jets in the UK.
Explaining the protest, she 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.
"I was studying to become a doctor because I believe in taking care of people.
"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 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?
"All of this is true and the Government won't even End UK Private Jets, every time one takes off, it pours a bucket of sh*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.
