Morrell was a tireless and effective campaigner for McCarthy's release from captors who held him in Lebanon for more than 5 years.
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 they married in April 1999.
[2] Morrell worked for charity Cancerbackup (now Macmillan Cancer Support) as their Policy and Public Affairs Manager.