Lion victim was 'GoT' special effects editor

04 June 2015 - 02:07
By Aislinn Laing, ©The Telegraph

The American tourist killed by a lioness at the Lion Park, outside Johannesburg has been identified as Katherine Chappell, a 29-year-old film special effects editor who was in the country to raise money for anti-poaching initiatives. Chappell - who worked on an Emmy Award-winning episode of Game of Thrones and had been based in Vancouver, Canada since 2013 - was described by her family as "brilliant, kind, adventurous and high-spirited".

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