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Camden New Journal - by SARA NEWMAN
Published: 29 November 2007

Actress Kerry Fox

TV dramatises parents’ fight to bring son’s killer
to justice

Actress Kerry Fox to play mother of photo-journalist shot by Israeli soldier

THE death of Tom Hurndall, the photo-journalist killed by a sniper in Gaza four years ago, is to be the subject of a Channel 4 film drama.
Actress Kerry Fox will play Mr Hurndall’s mother Jocelyn in the movie, likely to be ready for screening by March.
The two women recently met at Ms Hurndall’s home in Tufnell Park to talk about the project, which has the family’s full support.
Mr Hurndall, 22, a former student at Camden School for Girls’ sixth-form, was working with the International Solidarity Movement at Rafah in the Gaza strip when he was shot in the head as he helped three Palestinian children playing in rubble.
Israeli Defence Force soldier Taysir Hayb was later convicted of manslaughter and jailed for eight years. Mr Hurndall’s family are pursuing a civil action against the Israeli government.
Speaking on Tuesday – on what would have been her son’s 26th birthday – Mrs Hurndall said “Everyone involved has been concerned to stay true to the story. I wanted to give Kerry Fox a flavour of the immense love so many people had for Tom.
“There is peace in knowing what he meant to his friends and everyone who knew him and that’s incredibly comforting.”
The film started shooting last week under director Rowan Joffe. Scriptwriter Simon Block said: “It’s the family’s fight to get some recognition of what happened to Tom which makes it a compelling story.”
Mrs Hurndall resigned from her post as senior manager at Argyle School, in Tonbridge Street, Kings’s Cross, to pursue her campaign.
Tom Hurndall will be played by Matthew McNulty, with Stephen Dillane taking the role of Tom’s father, Anthony.

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