| 词条 | Jill Morrell |
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Jill Morrell (born 1957) is a British charity worker and former journalist. She came to the public eye following the kidnapping of her boyfriend John McCarthy, in 1986. Morrell was a tireless and effective campaigner for McCarthy's release from captors who held him in Lebanon for more than 5 years. Morrell was raised in Yorkshire, and is a graduate of Hull University. She met McCarthy while they were both working as journalists. They had been in a relationship for only a short time prior to McCarthy's abduction. She kept McCarthy's name in the public domain with a campaign to free him, called "Friends of John McCarthy" (FOJM). In 2009, she commented "I have found it hard to view the Friends of John McCarthy campaign with any real sense of personal achievement." [1] After McCarthy's release on 8 August 1991, the couple remained together until 1994, and wrote a joint memoir, Some Other Rainbow, but they parted amicably. McCarthy subsequently met BBC photographer, Anna Ottewill, and eventually married her in April 1999.[2] Morrell has worked for charity Cancerbackup, now Macmillan Cancer Support as their Policy and Public Affairs Manager, putting into practice the skills she acquired during the FOJM campaign. She later held the role of Head of Public Affairs with the British Lung Foundation.[3] Published works
References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12387334.Jill_Morrell_speaks_of_shadow_cast_on_life_by_McCarthy_ordeal/|title=Jill Morrell speaks of shadow cast on life by McCarthy ordeal|website=Herald Scotland|date=4 April 2009|access-date=5 May 2017}} 2. ^Former hostage McCarthy weds in private, BBC, 19 April 1999. Retrieved 24 November 2007. 3. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/3808153.Asbestos_-_the_hidden_killer/|title=Asbestos - the hidden killer|date=31 October 2008|author=Matthew Colledge|website=Somerset County Gazette|access-date=5 March 2019}} External links{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Morrell, Jill}}{{UK-writer-stub}} 5 : 1957 births|Living people|British writers|Place of birth missing (living people)|People educated at Thorne Grammar School |
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