An environmental protestor who threw a bucket of human faeces and urine on a memorial to Captain Sir Tom Moore has been arrested, it is understood.
The statue of the British Army officer was produced after he rose to fame during the pandemic for raising £32 million for NHS charities.
21-year-old Maddie Budd was criticised online after the controversial stunt, which was organised by the End UK Private Jets group.
Some have said the campaigner should have been handed a mop and bucket of water to clean up the memorial in Hatton, Derbyshire.
It's understood that the woman has now been arrested, with a spokesperson for the environmental group telling The Sun: “I was in London at another protest with Maddie.
“We were walking away very calmly after everything and we got separated.
“I left but she was then stopped and searched. She was escorted away by 18 police officers.
“Lucky for them we were walking towards them.
"I believe it was on suspicion of causing criminal damage."
Austin Cox, managing director of AGC Fabrications, told MailOnline : "We are working with the police, we have got a crime reference number.
"We are pursuing it and hoping they will prosecute. I can’t really say more than that at the moment."
He had earlier publicly tweeted: "I am the person who gifted the memorial to Thistley Meadow, and would like to inform you that we will be pursuing Maddie for vandalism.
"We will work with the police to ensure this taken as far as possible."
Video footage of the incident was posted on the End UK Private Jets' social media but has since been reshared hundreds of times.
62-year-old Jim Budd, father of Maddie, told MailOnline she had dropped out of medical school to become a full-time eco-warrior, giving up her career.
Speaking from their home near Kington on the England-Wales border, he said: "The shock of this is hurting people and upsetting them.
"I felt sick with shock when I saw it - I have sent her a text message but she has not replied.
But speaking about her protest, the former medical student, 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 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?
"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."
Derbyshire Police confirmed officers are aware of the incident and enquiries are currently ongoing.
