CAPTAIN Tom’s family have insisted they would still keep the £800,000 proceeds from three books he had written despite widespread outrage.
A new clip from Piers Morgan’s upcoming TalkTV interview with the pandemic hero’s relatives sees them insisting he intended for them to pocket the cash rather than give it to charity.
Captain Sir Tom Moore’s family have said they would still keep the £800,000 generated by his three booksTalk TV
Talk TVCaptain Tom’s son-in-law Colin claimed the funds were always intended to go to them[/caption]
In the clip, Colin Ingram-Moore, the husband of Captain Sir Tom Moore’s daughter Hannah, claimed the profits from a trio of books he wrote in 2020 were always meant to go to them.
Piers asked: “Given all the attention that’s now been put on you as a family, all the criticism, would you, if you had your time again, keep that money?”
Colin replied: “Yes. You know…it was his money, his income.
“And just because the charity happened to be called the Captain Tom Foundation doesn’t mean that his assets are all suddenly owned by the charity.”
Sales of the books exploded after Captain Sir Tom raised £39 million by walking a hundred lengths of his garden before his hundredth birthday in an effort to fundraise for the NHS.
In the wake of his efforts, the family set up the Captain Tom Foundation to help fund care for the elderly.
However, the £800,000 generated by the book sales was kept by his family and not channelled into the Foundation.
In the same interview, Hannah maintained that there had never been any suggestion that the money should go to charity and that Captain Tom himself had told her that was the case.
She said: “They were my father’s books.
“He wrote them and he decided what to do with the income from them.
“It was his wishes, not ours.
“He made all the decisions about the things he did. We didn’t act for him.”
But last night that assertion was under scrutiny after it emerged the prologue of the autobiography, published in September 2020, made out it was raising funds for the Captain Tom Foundation.
It stated: “Astonishingly at my age, with the offer to write this memoir I have also been given the chance to raise even more money for the charitable foundation now established in my name.”
The Ingram-Moore family have also faced criticism for the spa and pool complex that they built at their £1.2 million home.
The Sun exclusively revealed that planners had been informed that they wished to build an office space for the charity, but actually put up a poolhouse.
The Foundation’s name was used in the design and heritage statement, but a retrospective planning application was refused.
Hannah accepted that the decision was “probably the wrong one” but the family are still appealing the ruling and insist they paid for the structure themselves.
It comes after Piers wrote in The Sun that grilling the family was “one of the most difficult” interviews of his career, but claimed their betrayal was too huge to ignore.
The full interview will air at 8pm tonight.
piersmorgan/InstagramThe heroic pensioner raised £39 million for the NHS during the pandemic[/caption]
The family pocketed the profits of his books rather than channelling them into the charity set up in his namePA
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