The World War two veteran raised millions of pounds for health service workers battling the coronavirus.

His daughter, Hannah Ingram more told BBC television that the online messages were kept a secret, saying the abuse from a vial minority would have broken his heart.

We really had to use our our family resilience, our emotional resilience and we never told him because I don't think he could ever have understood it.

I think it would have broken his heart honestly if we said to him, You know, people are hating us I couldn't I couldn't tell him because how do you rationalize to 100 year old man that something so incredibly good attract such horror?

More struck a chord with locked down Britain by walking around his garden with the help of a frame to raise £38.9 million for the National Health Service.

While he received tens of thousands of supportive messages, there were some that mocked on abused him.

It didn't come close to him, but it really did.

It really did her and it really is really hard to deal with.

But we have dealt with it.

They will not win.

They will never make this amazing thing negative.

Whatever.

We won't let them more died on February 2nd after testing positive for Covert 19.

He was also fighting pneumonia.

Calls for social media companies to block users who sent abusive messages have grown in recent weeks after several soccer players in England were also targeted with racist abuse.