A HEREFORDSHIRE woman is reported to have been arrested after pouring faeces over a Captain Tom memorial.

End UK Private Jets, which calls on people who care about "this generation's future" by ending private jets, shared a series of posts on Twitter after the 21-year-old, who is understood to be from Kington in Herefordshire, poured human waste over the memorial.

In a video, Maddie Budd, who was studying to become a doctor, said she knew her actions would be seen as obscenely disrespectful to his life and the NHS.

But, she said, private jets were contributing to environmental damage and contrary to everything Captain Tom stood for.

End UK Private Jets said Ms Budd had been arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage after the stunt.

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Captain Tom Moore shot into the public eye during the coronavirus pandemic by walking laps of his garden for NHS charities.

The 100-year-old died in 2021 after catching the virus, but had raised a total of £32.7 million, with donations from 1.5 million supporters, before his fundraising page was closed at midnight following his 100th birthday on April 30, 2020.

In acknowledgement of his efforts, he was knighted by the Queen during a unique open-air ceremony at Windsor Castle in summer 2020.

JustGiving announced that the money raised by Captain Tom was a world record amount for a person raising money for a single cause.

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