Protester who threw bucket of poo over Sir Captain Tom Moore memorial ‘arrested’

The protestor who desecrated a memorial of Sir Captain Tom Moore with a bucket of her own poo has been arrested, according to a fellow protestor.

Maddie Budd, 21, also mixed urine into the poo bucket in Derbyshire.

Sir Tom raised £32.79million for the NHS when he turned 100 during the Covid pandemic, but the Budd decided to use the memorial stunt as a chance to protest against private jets – nothing whatsoever to do with Sir Captain Tom Moore and his legacy.

Wearing a t-shirt with the words “End UK Private Jets” on, the Welsh woman said after committing the act: “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 stood up for and I agree.

"If we believe that the NHS is important, if we believe in taking care of each other, if we believe that NHS workers are doing essential work, why are forcing our healthcare system into collapse, why are we forcing our civilisation into collapse, why is basically no-one taking this genocide of all humanity seriously?

“All of this is true and the Government won't even End UK Private Jets, every time one takes off, it pours a bucket of sh*t and blood onto everything that Captain Tom stood for.”

She was doing the stunt on behalf of group End UK Private Jets.

A spokesman, who was with Budd when she was arrested, told The Sun: “I was in London at another protest with Maddie.

“I left but she was then stopped and searched. She was escorted away by 18 police officers.

“My understanding was that these police officers had been sent to find her specifically.

"I believe it was on suspicion of causing criminal damage.”

The Daily Star has contacted the Met Police for comment.

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