Fresh blow for Capt Tom’s daughter as she’s forced to knock £250k off illegal spa home & WIPES hero’s name from listing
CAPTAIN Tom’s daughter has been forced to knock £250,000 off the asking price for her controversial country home.
The seven-bed property had been on the market using his name last year with a whopping £2.25million price tag.
The online listing featured a photo of the veteran being knighted by the late Queen in 2020.
A statue of Capt Tom showing the moment he finished his charity walk could also be seen on full view in the main hallway.
But Hannah Ingram-Moore and her husband Colin took the house off the market after failing to flog it.
Now the mansion in Bedfordshire is back up for grabs – and the family have slashed £250,000 off the price.
The online listing does not mention or show the veteran in any capacity, according to The Mirror.
Town and country estate agents Michael Graham advertised the house, which sits within 3.5 acres, for offers in excess of £2million.
It states: “The vendors have owned the property for 18 years and have undertaken a comprehensive programme of improvement and renovation.”
Hannah and Colin put the Grade II-listed home on the market just a few months after they lost their appeal to keep the spa complex in their garden.
Bedfordshire County Council ordered them to tear it down after it was built in her father’s name.
The couple claimed it was going to be partly used by the Captain Tom Foundation “and its charitable objectives”.
The 18th century property has a separate “coach house”, with a gym and office, four bathrooms and is in a conservation area.
The sale comes after mounting anger from neighbours over the besmirching of the family name.
Hannah and husband Colin have already been disqualified from being charity trustees.
Tom inspired the nation by raising £39million 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.
They were slammed in a November report by the Charity Commission which found “repeated instances of misconduct and/or mismanagement”.
The damning report found they were responsible for a “pattern of behaviour” which saw them repeatedly benefiting personally from their involvement in the charity.
Hannah previously spoke about the ordeal in a bombshell interview with TalkTV‘s Piers Morgan.
She admitted to pocketing money from the £39million NHS fund-raising veteran.
She revealed they kept £800,000 from the three books her dad had written – claiming he had wanted them to keep the profits.
Their consultancy firm Maytrix Group also took up to £100,000 in furlough money and £47,500 in Covid loans despite bumper profits during the pandemic.
Other controversies include her £18,000 payment to attend the Captain Tom awards – and only donating £2,000 of it to his charity.
The veteran’s daughter also was paid the large sum to attend the Virgin Media O2 Captain Tom Foundation Connector Awards in 2021.
The Sun has reached out to the Ingram-Moores 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 Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire 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