Saturday 1 October 2022 09:54 PM Fury as eco zealot, 21, pours a bucket of FAECES on a memorial to Captain Sir ... trends now
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An eco warrior has taken the perplexing step of pouring a bucket of human excrement over a memorial to Captain Sir Tom Moore in a protest over the use of private jets.
The bizarre decision by former medical student Maddy Budd, 21, has been greeted with widespread fury and bemusement.
She filmed herself pouring the canister of faeces and urine over the memorial to the late captain - who made international headlines in 2020 when he raised money for charity in the run-up to his 100th birthday during the Covid-19 pandemic - on behalf of pressure group End UK Private Jets.
'Every time one [private jet] takes off, it pours a bucket of sh*t and blood onto everything that Captain Tom stood for,' Maddy said in a recorded statement by way of justification for the vandalism.
'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
