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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.
4 de may. de 2009 · Updated 13:11, 28 Jan 2012. |. Bookmark. The ex-girlfriend of Beirut hostage John McCarthy revealed for the first time yesterday why their relationship broke down. Jill Morrell said the deep...
4 de may. de 2009 · Herald and Times archive. Jill Morrell, the woman who campaigned tirelessly for the release of Beirut hostage John McCarthy only to see their subsequent relationship founder, has spoken of the...
10 de nov. de 2002 · Sat 9 Nov 2002 23.38 EST. Ten years ago, John McCarthy was holed up in a Cotswolds cottage with Jill Morrell working on the final chapters of their memoir, Some Other Rainbow. He was 12 months...
Jill Morrell refused to believe her boyfriend was dead. Jill Morrell was John's girlfriend at the time. She ran the 'Friends of John McCarthy' campaign to try and secure his release. She...
Some Other Rainbow is a joint memoir written by John McCarthy and Jill Morrell and first published by Bantam Press in 1993. It deals in separate chapters with the individual and parallel experiences of McCarthy and Morrell, during McCarthy's captivity in the Lebanon, which lasted from 17 April 1986 until 8 August 1991.
Jill Morrell (former) Children. 1. John Patrick McCarthy CBE (born 27 November 1956) is a British journalist, writer and broadcaster, and one of the hostages in the Lebanon hostage crisis. McCarthy was the United Kingdom 's longest-held hostage in Lebanon, where he was a prisoner for more than five years.
