CAPTAIN Sir Tom Moore’s heart would have broken if he had been told about the social media abuse his family experienced before his death, his daughter has said.

The 100-year-old Keighley-born fundraiser was the victim of online trolling in the days leading up to his death earlier this month.

But his family decided against telling him about these messages as he would not have fully understood why it was happening.

Speaking on today’s BBC Breakfast, Hannah Ingram-Moore said: “We really had to use our family resilience, emotional resilience.

“We never told him because I don’t think he could ever have understood it. It would have broken his heart honestly, if we’d said to him that people are hating us.

“I couldn’t tell him.

“How do you rationalise to a 100-year-old man that something so incredibly good can attract such horror.

"So we contained it within the four of us and we said we wouldn't play to ... that vile minority, we wouldn't play to them, we're not, because we are talking to the massive majority of people who we connect with."

A hearing will take place tosday at Lanark Sheriff Court in Scotland after a 35-year-old man was charged in connection with an alleged offensive message posted on Twitter about Sir Tom.

Ms Ingram-Moore said her father had wanted to come home to steak and chips after he was admitted to hospital with coronavirus.

She revealed the family have received a letter of condolence from the Queen and Captain Sir Tom and Her Majesty would have enjoyed a cup of tea together if the pandemic restrictions allowed.