'Ashamed' father hits out at daughter for throwing faeces over Captain Tom memorial

Budd, a former medical student, then set about pouring the grim brown sludge all over the memorial. 

Now, her dad Jim Budd, 62, has said he was left feeling sick after he saw what his daughter had done. 

“She’s done something horrible without thinking of the consequences.

“I felt sick with shock when I saw it – I have sent her a text message but she has not replied.”

He told the news outlet that his daughter had been at university in Manchester but had studies on hold after learning more about the climate crisis and wanting to get involved with protesting. 

Mr Budd went on: “It is very hard to understand how young people can feel so threatened by climate change that they can carry out such extreme actions.

“But I'm not making excuses for her. She has made a terrible mistake. We were horrified, it's an ongoing worry.”

She said: "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.

“I was studying to become a doctor because I believe in taking care of people. 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 s**t and blood onto everything that Captain Tom stood for.”