Captain Tom's family say they received death threats and hate mail

Captain Sir Tom Moore became famous for his fundraising efforts during the first coronavirus lockdown

The family of Captain Sir Tom Moore say they have received death threats and been left feeling "devastated" by negative reactions to them.

Speaking on TalkTV's Piers Morgan Uncensored, the captain's daughter said: "There is a forum… they were all discussing how they were going to come and kill us all in our beds."

Hannah Ingram-Moore said her daughter had also received threats by mail.

She said the family lived with "an underbelly of hate".

They have been criticised for keeping hundreds of thousands of pounds of profit from Capt Sir Tom's books - although there is no suggestion that Ms Ingram-Moore acted illegally by keeping the money, rather than donating it to her late father's charity.

By walking laps around his Bedfordshire garden, Capt Sir Tom raised £38m for NHS Charities Together which works with a network of more than 230 groups across the UK to support the organisation.

However, the charity set up by his family in his honour - The Captain Tom Foundation - is no longer taking donations and is currently the subject of a statutory inquiry by The Charity Commission.

Hannah Ingram-Moore, Capt Sir Tom's daughter, said her father was "globally adored"

Ms Ingram-Moore told presenter Piers Morgan: "We haven't been that family who's tried to take his legacy and make it for our own gain.

"We've tried our best to do the right thing and sometimes it's turned out it wasn't - but not through intent."

Her son Benji, 19, said of the abuse aimed at his mother: "It's utterly devastating and to see the impact it's had on her... people can have opinions - that is up to them, but what you cannot stand are threats and abuse that are just vile.

"There have been genuine times when I don't think she's known if she could go on."

Asked if she had felt that way, Ms Ingram-Moore responded: "No, I'm my father's daughter at the end of the day... but it has been totally devastating."

She said although there was "global adoration" of what her father had done, "there was always an underbelly of hate, but we lived with it because he was giving hope to the world".

"It never occurred to us that anyone could hate a 100-year-old man walking up and down to support the NHS and the family behind, doing everything they could to support him," she added.

Capt Sir Tom won the nation's hearts with his fundraising walk, which took in 100 laps of his garden and raised £38m for NHS charities

The messages started on her Twitter account, some accusing her of using a "cattle prod" to goad her father into walking.

Other emails called the family "parasites" and one even said they hoped they all caught Covid.

Her daughter, Georgia, 14, was sent a letter decorated with unicorns and hearts to mislead the family into thinking it was an innocent letter, but it contained insults and a newspaper cutting which was critical of the family.

All members of the family confirmed they had received death threats and Ms Ingram-Moore's husband, Colin, said people had threatened to fire-bomb the family home in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire.

The barrage of threats had made his wife "extremely ill", he added.

The family is currently appealing a ruling that they must demolish a building in their garden which was initially given planning permission.

The spa (the C-shaped building to the right of the pond) is at the home where Capt Sir Tom Moore walked 100 laps of the garden in 2020

It was originally approved for the use of the occupiers and the Captain Tom Foundation and was granted planning permission in August 2021.

It had been partly constructed when revised plans, which included a spa pool, toilets and a kitchen "for private use", were submitted in February 2022 and rejected.

The family admitted to Morgan it was a mistake to have named the foundation in the initial application.

The Charity Commission said its inquiry into the Captain Tom Foundation remained ongoing.

"Its scope includes examining mismanagement or misconduct which may have led to any financial losses to the charity and whether the trustees have adequately managed conflicts of interest, including with private companies connected to the Ingram-Moore family," a spokesperson said.

The BBC has asked Bedfordshire Police to comment on the threats against the family.

The BBC has also contacted Ms Ingram-Moore for comment.