Considering she later claimed that she had come up with the idea for the Race for Life, Cancer Research UK’s former Events Manager Jill MacRae left one hell of a paper trail proving otherwise.
We have already published Jim Cowan’s letter to her proposing his idea, a new event called the Race for Life, and we have also published a letter from MacRae which stated that “Mr Cowan came to us with the original idea…”
Today we share another letter from MacRae. This one follows on from Jim Cowan’s initial proposal and follows a phone conversation between the two of them to arrange a meeting to discuss the idea.
MacRae then wrote to Jim thanking him for his interest in organising an event to benefit the charity and stating that it sounded exciting. So exciting in fact, that she later stole the idea and built a successful career on the back of that lie.
What part MacRae played in Imperial Cancer Research Fund and then Cancer Research UK denying Jim created the event, or even that they have ever heard of him (thus costing him a job), we may never know.
We do know that there is no excuse for continuing with their charade and the time is long overdue for Jim to be rightly credited with his incredible creation.
In the Race 4 Truth, Cancer Research UK are lagging behind.
McRea should be prosecuted by the police for fraud along with CRUK management who knew she was lying and chose to ignore the truth and benefited from the money made, therefore making them liable in fraud in the same way. CRUK has made hundreds of £millions from stealing Jim’s Race For Life and they should be made to pay him what was originally agreed in writing since its inception to the present date. They must also be made to acknowledge his brilliant concept.
For what Jim created and what it achieved, Jim deserves a knighthood