Woman who defaced Captain Tom statue arrested THREE TIMES in one week

2022-10-06

EXCLUSIVE Revealed: Eco-nuisance was arrested THREE TIMES in just one WEEK and named in injunction after scaling oil tanker – before being freed to pour human waste over Captain Tom’s statue

EXCLUSIVE: Madeleine Budd arrested three times in one week, document shows
During one incident, the former medical student, 21, scaled an oil storage tank
Budd arrested during fuel protests staged in Thurrock by Just Stop Oil in April
She was named on injunction taken out against eco-activists by the council
No charges brought against the eco-nuisance, who went on to pour human excrement over a Captain Sir Tom Moore memorial last Friday and faces jail

The eco zealot who defaced Captain Sir Tom Moore’s memorial was arrested three times in less than a week and named in a High Court injunction after scaling an oil storage tank earlier this year, MailOnline can today reveal.

Madeleine Budd, 21, was arrested by police three times in April this year for her part in fuel protests staged by Just Stop Oil in Thurrock, Essex.

But no charges were brought against Budd as a result of the arrests, leaving the ‘End UK Private Jets’ supporter free to go on to pour human excrement over Captain Sir Tom Moore’s memorial in Derbyshire last Friday.

Essex Police made more than 460 arrests after eco-activists disrupted oil terminals across the Thurrock district in April this year, costing the force in excess of £1 million.

This prompted Essex County Council and Thurrock Council to seek an injunction preventing protestors from blocking roads and vehicles at fuel terminals across the borough.

Budd, a former medical student, was among 222 defendants named in the a borough-wide injunction – which was extended until May 2023 – documents show.

It also revealed that Budd was arrested three times on April 8, 10 and 13.

Maddie Budd was among protestor to block oil terminals in Thurrock, Essex, in April this year. The group Just Stop Oil posted this picture on their instagram account.

The former medical student filmed herself pouring a bucket of human excrement over a memorial to Captain Sir Tom Moore in a protest over the use of private jets last Friday

Pictured: Madeleine Budd was named in the injunction taken out by Essex County Council and Thurrock Council, as were details of her arrests

On April 10, the document states Budd was ‘found on top of a large oil storage tank on’ at the Exolum terminal in Grays ‘without permission to be there’.

Under the terms of the injunction, protestors are prevented from blocking roads, stopping vehicles and gluing themselves to the road or vehicles.

It also aims to prevent unnecessary disruption for local businesses and residents trying to access their premises, homes, petrol stations and travel near these sites.

No charges were ever brought against Budd, and last Friday she was filmed pouring human excrement over Captain Tom’s memorial in Derbyshire.

The shocking stunt prompted outrage as Budd was filmed drenching the monument – which honours the 100-year-old World War Two veteran who raised £33 million for the NHS during lockdown – in urine and faeces.

Budd pictured left as protestors appear to attempt to access an oil depot with a ladder. Picture posted by Just Stop Oil on April 13, the day she was arrested

Budd pictured with Just Stop Oil protestors, posted on April 8. The caption read: ‘Right now 80 people are sat in police custody for their peaceful protest to demand and end to the death machine’

Budd was remanded in custody on Tuesday after pleading guilty to pouring human excrement over a memorial to pandemic hero Captain Sir Tom Moore.

She was arrested in London on Sunday over the incident at the memorial in Hatton, Derbyshire.

District Judge Louisa Cieciora said the starting point for sentencing following her guilty plea could be 18 months’ imprisonment.

She also declined an application for bail ahead of the sentencing hearing, telling the court she has ‘substantial grounds’ to believe Budd would commit another offence.

Budd was remanded in custody while a pre-sentence report is carried out ahead of her sentencing on October 25.

Prosecutor Jordan Pratt told Westminster Magistrates Court yesterday: ‘On September 30 the defendant attended a location in Hatton where there is a statue of Sir Captain Tom Moore.

The vandalised memorial was in memory of Captain Sir Tom Moore, 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

‘The statue is situated in a public area next to a road. She approached the statue and poured a bucket of human faeces all over this statue.

‘She was wearing a white t-shirt which said “End UK Private Jets”. This act was filmed. It has already been seen by a number of people. This is an abhorrent act.

‘I need not remind the court of the impact that Tom Moore had. He was a figurehead who people rallied round to raise tens of millions of pounds walking round his garden at the height of the pandemic.’

Budd, of no fixed address, will attend her next hearing at Westminster Magistrates Court on October 25, she was remanded in custody in the meantime.

And yesterday it was revealed Budd was handed a conditional discharge for a pitch invasion of the Arsenal vs Liverpool game where she wanted to glue her hands to the goalposts just one month earlier.

Budd was arrested at the Emirates during the Premier League clash on March 16.

She had managed to get onto the pitch as she pushed to get to the goals, where a fellow campaigner had just reached.

But the security stewards managed to intercept and contain her for the police to arrest.

It is understood she was given a six-month conditional discharge, which expired only on Tuesday.

Just Stop Oil were contacted for a comment.

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