Ruth Ellis was hanged for the murder of David Blakely, although the story is far more nuanced than that. We know that Blakely had been incredibly abusive towards Ruth, but uncertainty remains ...

Before his tragic death, Ruth Ellis' son Andre 'Andy' Neilson made a recording which shed a completely different light on the ...

CECIL Havers was a former soldier and judge who oversaw the Ruth Ellis case, which ended in her execution.  He appears in the ...

The grandchildren of Ruth Ellis have told how she should never have been hanged for killing David Blakely, the man she loved despite his freeloading, violent outbursts and ultimately his rejection.

Back then the death penalty was mandatory for murder and so Ellis ... examined in a new ITV drama called A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, starring Lucy Boynton. Today, other extenuating ...

A new ITV show focuses on the notorious case that helped bring about the abolition of capital punishment for murder ...

In 1955, at the age of 28, Ruth Ellis became the last woman to be hanged for murder in the UK. Her death, coming after she shot her lover outside a Hampstead pub two months before, sparked a wave ...

At age 28, Ruth Ellis became the last woman to be hanged for murder in the U.K. after she fatally shot her playboy lover, and her controversial conviction is raising questions 70 years later.

Ruth became involved in an abusive relationship with upcoming racing driver David Blakely. On trial for his murder, Ruth was sentenced to hanging. Ruth remained at Holloway Prison while awaiting ...

One of the most well-known British murder cases, A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story details the circumstances that led Ruth Ellis to kill her lover and her subsequent execution in 1955.

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