Ruth Ellis, a 28-year-old nightclub hostess, was hanged in July 1955 for shooting dead racing driver David Blakely as he came ...
FOR more than 70 years, the hanging of Ruth Ellis has been a stain on our criminal justice system. The 28-year-old nightclub ...
Ruth Ellis, a nightclub hostess, was executed on 13 July 1955 after being convicted of murdering her lover, David Blakely.
The grandchildren of the last woman to be hanged in Britain are seeking a posthumous pardon, saying she was physically and ...
The grandchildren of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, originally from Basingstoke, are seeking a posthumous pardon.
Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK, continues to inspire a morbid fascination in the public imagination. This week, ITV will premiere a new dramatisation of Ellis’s life, crime, and ...
“She is a murderer, but she didn’t deserve to be taken from the world in the way she was.” Those are the words of Stephen ...
Who was Ruth Ellis? Ruth Ellis was a Welsh mother of two who worked as a nightclub hostess, model, and one-time background actor. (She had an uncredited role in the 1951 film Lady Godiva Rides Again.) ...
EXCLUSIVE: Toby Jones is to play the solicitor who tried to save Ruth Ellis in ITV‘s upcoming drama about the last woman to be hanged in Britain. Vera producer Silverprint Pictures has rounded out ...
The grandchildren of the last woman to be hanged in Britain are seeking a posthumous pardon, saying she was physically and ...
The British miniseries A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, premiering on the streaming service BritBox on February 17, “exposes the timeless British obsessions of class, sex, and death” through the ...