Captain Tom’s daughter Hannah uses her dad’s name AGAIN to sell mansion for £2.25m after being forced to tear down spa
CAPTAIN Tom’s daughter is using her dad’s name AGAIN – this time to sell the family home for a whopping £2.25m.
Hannah Ingram-Moore, 53, and hubby Colin, 66, are selling the seven-bed after cheekily building a spa without permission – then being forced to tear it down.
The property listing shows the family are STILL shamelessly cashing in on beloved Tom by using his memory to push the sale.
An unmistakable bust of Tom is on full view in the main hallway pictures on Rightmove.
And the ‘owner’s statement’ reads: “A particularly special memory of our time here is of my father walking 100 laps of the garden to raise a record-breaking sum of almost £40million for NHS charities during the pandemic.”
The brochure particulars add: “The property is owned by the family of Captain Sir Tom Moore who spent his final years there raising money for the NHS during the Covid pandemic.”
Another snap shows a bottle of champagne just yards from the site where Ingram-Moore built an illegal indoor pool in a building named after Captain Tom.
The sale comes after mounting anger from neighbours over besmirching of the family name.
Tom inspired the nation by raising £39m with a sponsored walk in the garden of the property.
But the Ingram-Moores faced a humiliating charity probe over payments made to the couple from the Captain Tom charity they ran with donations.
In October last year (2023) Mrs Ingram-Moore tearfully admitted to TalkTV’s Piers Morgan the family kept £800,000 book profits from former soldier Capt Tom, who died in 2021, aged 100.
In the brochure the family now even boast about having A MOAT packed with koi carp.
And such is the family’s jumpiness after their public embarrassment they are insisting viewers provide ID, proof of wealth and sign NDAs before visiting the property.
How the spa demolition row played out
Its removal ends a chapter in Hannah’s unravelling life after Captain Tom united the nation during the Covid pandemic.
Hannah, 52, engineered her father’s publicity during the coronavirus pandemic when Sir Tom began walking.
He had been challenged by his grandson to walk 100 laps of his garden before he turned 100 years old.
With a background in retail branding, Hannah approached a PR consultant and suggested writing a press release for the event.
Hannah then started a JustGiving page with a £1,000 target and the feel-good story of the veteran took off.
Towels, t-shirts, gin, dolls, books, a movie, and even a miniskirt emblazoned with Sir Tom’s face on it were all produced.
Hannah then set up Club Nook Ltd to protect all the intellectual property that had been made from the Captain Tom phenomenon as well as the Captain Tom Foundation for charity work.
Withe public behind him, Sir Tom raised £38.9million for the NHS and became a pandemic phenomenon.
He was knighted by the late Queen during a unique open-air ceremony at Windsor Castle in the summer of that year.
The family travelled to Barbados after a fre trip was offered by the tourism board – a long held dream of Captain Tom’s.
But a backlash began against the family, who were seen as being freeloaders.
Sir Tom died soon after from Covid after he was admitted to hospital with troubled breathing.
Hi coffin was draped in a Union Jack and carried to a crematorium by soldiers from the Yorkshire Regiment while a World War-era plane performed a flypast.
But in the years following his death, the family has brought itself negative publicity.
A proposal aimed to make Hannah Chief Executive Officer of the foundation with a pay packet of £150,000.
The eye-watering sum was rejected by the Charity Commission who said Hannah’s appointment was “neither reasonable nor justifiable”.
Hannah also admitted to pocketing money that was earned through the books sold by Sir Tom.
An investigation by the Charity Commission was subsequently started into the Captain Tom Foundation.
And a “humiliating” spa row erupted into public view as the family illegally built a new wing of a building next to the home.
In 2021 the council gave the green light for a new office building at the Bedfordshire home for Hannah and Colin to run the charity.
Hannah and husband Colin had applied in their own names for planning — but used the foundation’s name in the design and access and heritage statement.
The application claimed it the The Captain Tom Building and said it was to be used partly “in connection with The Captain Tom Foundation and its charitable objectives”.
But the family instead built a 50ft by 20ft pool house with spa, changing rooms, toilets and showers in the garden of their £1.2 home in Marston Moretaine.
They filed a retrospective application for the add-on, but it was refused.
A court heard the add-on later “evolved” to include the spa pool.
Chartered surveyor James Paynter, speaking for the family in court, suggested it could be used for “rehabilitation sessions for elderly people in the area”.
But Richard Proctor, Planning Enforcement Team Leader, said: “The Council’s position is that the building is wholly different to the application.”
The £200,000 spa complex was ordered to be torn down by February 7 this year.
Scaffolders arrived at the home on Tuesday, with a section of the roof removed the following day and the crane removing the spa pool on Friday afternoon.
Workers removed his BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award and Guinness Book of Records certificate from the building.
The daughter of the beloved war hero looked downcast as she watched demolition workers remove roof tiles, a sink, a toilet, and a home cinema from the site on Thursday.
Locals told of the family’s “embarrassment” on Wednesday while celebrating its imminent destruction.
Neighbours say they have “spoilt everything” over the “prison-like” spa complex.
Frustrated Ian Knight, told the Independent: “We were proud of what he’s done but now we’re the laughing stock.
“They’ve spoilt everything. It was a good thing what he’s done, and now it’s embarrassing.”
The C-shaped building has “devalued” other homes and looks like a “prison”, one neighbour said.
A third said it was “about time they knocked it down”.
Others claimed Hannah and husband Colin had “never spoken to anybody”, which further soured the neighbours’ opinions.
A fourth angry local claimed fury was sparked in the village after Hannah spoke of installing a jacuzzi in the spa.
The resident said: “They said we will probably let the older people in the village come and use it.
“You must be bloody joking. It’s a load of bulls***.
“The worst bit is that it’s made a mockery of Captain Tom’s name.”
Hannah pocketed £800,000 from the three books her dad had written, she told Piers Morgan in October. She claimed he wanted his family to keep the profits.
She also revealed she was paid £18,000 to attend the Captain Tom awards – but only donating £2,000 of it to his charity.
She told the TalkTV’s host: “We have to accept that we made a decision, and it was probably the wrong one.”
But £800,000 went to her firm Club Nook Ltd, which was set up just four months before the first tome, Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day: My Autobiography, was published in September 2020.
Charity Commission bosses are now probing the foundation.
The latest financial details about the charity show a total income of £400,000 and expenditure of £680,000.
Hannah pocketed £800,000 from the three books her dad had written, she told Piers Morgan in October. She claimed he wanted his family to keep the profits.
She also revealed she was paid £18,000 to attend the Captain Tom awards – but only donating £2,000 of it to his charity.
She told the TalkTV’s host: “We have to accept that we made a decision, and it was probably the wrong one.”
But £800,000 went to her firm Club Nook Ltd, which was set up just four months before the first tome, Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day: My Autobiography, was published in September 2020.
Charity Commission bosses are now probing the foundation.
The latest financial details about the charity show a total income of £400,000 and expenditure of £680,000.
The owner description also reads: “It was the opportunity for multigenerational living that first drew us to this property,”
“We were living in Surrey, my elderly father was in Kent, and we were setting up our own business needing access to London, so we drew a circle on the map to determine how far we were willing to move.
“Initially, we were looking for a house for us and our young family, and another nearby for my father, but when we found The Rectory with its own Coach House in the grounds, we increasingly liked the idea of all living together.
“As the Coach House was in use as a B&B, my father ended up living with us in the main house, which with its 7 bedrooms including two master suites is more than big enough!
“In the years since, it has been wonderful to see young and old thrive in a family home where everyone has their own space.”
The family had permission for a small charity office in the grounds of the grade II-listed mansion, but built a block twice the size, including a spa, pool and a sun terrace.
They demolished it this year after the scandal was revealed by The Sun.
Hannah Ingram-Moore has been contacted for comment.
How Captain Sir Tom Moore rose to fame & his daughter's controversies
- March 2020 – D-Day veteran Captain Tom Moore walks 100 laps around his garden before his 100th birthday, raising £30million for the NHS during the first lockdown.
- April 2020 – Captain Tom reaches No. 1 in the charts with his cover of ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’. He receives 100,000 cards for his 100th birthday, which is marked with a Battle of Britain flypast. A train is named after him.
- July 2020 – Captain Tom is knighted by the Queen in a special private ceremony at Windsor Castle.
- September 2020 – Hannah Ingram-Moore launches the Captain Tom Foundation to combat loneliness.
- December 2020 – Drones swarm into the shape of Captain Tom’s face at the New Year’s Eve firework display in London.
- February 2021 – Captain Sir Tom Moore dies after catching Covid-19.
- February 2022 – The Charity Commission launches a probe into the Captain Tom foundation after it paid £50,000 to companies run by Hannah Ingram-Moore and her husband Colin.
- July 2023 – The foundation stops accepting donations. Planning chiefs order Hannah to tear down an unauthorised spa at her home. The building had been approved to be used “in connection with the Captain Tom Foundation and its charitable objectives”. But a larger building with a spa pool was built instead and was denied retrospective planning permission. Hannah appeals.
- September 2023 – accounts reveal Hannah received more than £70,000 to head the foundation.
- October 2023 – Hannah loses her appeal and is ordered to demolish the spa and restore the garden to its original condition.
- January 2023 – Demolition work begins
- April 2023 – The home goes up for sale