page_title: Lesley Elliott (campaigner)
hierarchical_section_title: Lesley Elliott (campaigner)
caption_attribution_description: English: Lesley Elliott, after her investiture as MNZM, for services to the prevention of domestic violence, at Government House, Wellington, on 11 September 2015.
context_page_description: Lesley Frances Elliott MNZM is a New Zealand nurse who is the founder and chairperson of the Sophie Elliott Foundation, an organisation that educates New Zealanders on the signs of abuse in personal relationships. She was moved to start the work after her daughter Sophie was killed by her former boyfriend in January 2008. She realised that she had been unaware that he was abusive, but that it was possible to identify the signs. In 2019, she closed the Sophie Elliott Foundation as her Parkinson's disease was preventing her from continuing to run the foundation and she does not want another person to control her daughter's image.
context_section_description: Lesley Frances Elliott MNZM is a New Zealand nurse who is the founder and chairperson of the Sophie Elliott Foundation, an organisation that educates New Zealanders on the signs of abuse in personal relationships. She was moved to start the work after her daughter Sophie was killed by her former boyfriend in January 2008. She realised that she had been unaware that he was abusive, but that it was possible to identify the signs. In 2019, she closed the Sophie Elliott Foundation as her Parkinson's disease was preventing her from continuing to run the foundation and she does not want another person to control her daughter's image.
caption: Elliott in 2015
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