Jeremy Clarkson details his response to woman who defaced Captain Moore’s statue
express.co.ukJeremy continued: "A mate and I were the only two people on it. Apart from the pilots."As I sat there listening to the engine turning carbon into noise and gas and speed, I couldn't help wondering how on earth we've arrived at a point where a silly little girl can look at all the world, and all that's wrong with it, and decide that private jets are the biggest evil, and that the best way of dealing with this is tipping a bucket of barely digested Fruit'n Fibre over the effigy of a national hero."Jeremy went on to admit that he had also been a "troublemaker" when he was younger, but unlike Madeline, he "had to keep shtoom"."She was saying she was proud of drowning Captain Sir Tom in vegetarian diarrhoea because she knew that such a move would make her very popular with lots of other silly little girls," Jeremy concluded in his latest column for The Sunday Times.Following the highly-publicised stunt, Madeline appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday wearing a dark jumper.She confirmed her name, address, date of birth and entered a guilty plea.Derbyshire Police charged Madeline on Monday with criminal damage to a war memorial to the value of £200 belonging to AGC Fabrications, whose managing director Austin Cox gifted the statue to Thistley Meadow.Sir Tom was praised nationally when he raised almost £33 million for NHS charities during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic by walking laps of his garden in the run-up to his 100th birthday.He was later knighted by the Queen before he died with Covid-19 in February 2021.Prosecutor Jordan Pratt said: “The facts of the case is that on September 30, the defendant attended the location of Thistley Meadow in Hatton where there is a statue, a silhouette of Sir.
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