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 ...

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.

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Nightclub hostess and glamour model, Ruth Ellis from Rhyl, North Wales shot her abusive partner David Blakely dead over 70 years ago, but the case is still very much talked about today ...

Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK ... Ellis was arrested and found guilty of murder at the Old Bailey before being jailed at HM Prison Holloway. By 13 July, she had been hanged ...

As the granddaughter of Ruth Ellis, Laura’s life was never going to be straightforward but she’s finally ready to stop ...

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.

Ruth Ellis’s grandson argues ‘substantial evidence’ was not put forward at her 1955 trial and she was ‘wrongly convicted of ...

Ruth Ellis was born in Rhyl on October 9 ... The jury took less than twenty minutes to return a guilty verdict for a charge of murder, sentencing her to death. When the murder verdict was passed ...