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Sir Tom Moore dead: Glasgow man denies posting ‘grossly offensive’ tweet about World War Two veteran day after death
A MAN has denied posting an offensive message about NHS fundraiser Captain Sir Tom Moore on social media.
Joseph Kelly, 35, allegedly sent the ‘menacing’ Twitter post the day after the World War Two veteran passed away.
Prosecutors claim the tweet was ‘grossly offensive’ or of an ‘indecent, obscene or menacing character’ and that Kelly uttered offensive remarks about Sir Tom.
Kelly, of Castlemilk, Glasgow, was not present when his case was called at Lanark Sheriff Court. Archie Hill, defending, pled not guilty on his behalf and the case was continued by Sheriff Nikola Stewart.
Sir Tom, who helped raise more than £32million for the NHS during the first national lockdown, died from coronavirus and pneumonia earlier this month aged 100.
He won the nation’s hearts by walking 100 laps of his garden in Bedfordshire last year during the first lockdown, raising money for NHS Charities Together.
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He was knighted by the Queen in July in a special ceremony at Windsor Castle.
This week his daughter, Hannah Ingram-Moore opened up about some of Sir Tom’s final thoughts and moments after he was admitted to hospital with Covid.
She said: “I said to him in the last few days, ‘So what do you want to eat when you come home?’ and we decided it was steak and chips. “He was really excited about coming out for steak and chips and getting his frame back outside and his walker.
“The last real conversation was positive and about carrying on and that’s a lovely place to be.”Mrs Ingram-Moore told the BBC that when her dad went into hospital they “believed he’d come back out”.
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She added: “We thought the oxygen would help, that he would be robust enough, [but] the truth is he just wasn’t. “He was old and he just couldn’t fight it.”
She also discussed their final holiday together to Barbados where Sir Tom ticked off a Caribbean visit from his bucket list.
She added: “It was just amazing, he sat in 29 degrees outside, he read two novels, he read the newspapers every day and we sat and we talked as a family.
“We went to restaurants (because we could there) and he ate fish on the beach and what a wonderful thing to do.”
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