Desmond Cussen was a key figure in the story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, who is depicted in the ...

Ruth Ellis shot her lover David Blakely in 1955 and her devoted admirer Desmond Cussen was drawn into her toxic love triangle - but what happened to him after her death?

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

But what else do we know about Desmond Cussen and what happened to him after Ruth Ellis' death? Who was Desmond Cussen? Desmond Cussen was born in 1923 in Epsom, Surrey, with a wealthy family ...

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

Now, ITV drama A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story is bringing the high-profile murder case back into public discourse, ...

Lucy Boynton leads the cast of ITV's hard-hitting factual drama A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, which explores the tragic ...

Lucy Boynton discusses her intense and heartbreaking portrayal of Ruth Ellis, the last woman executed in Great Britain in ...

IF you’re a fan of ITV dramas, then you’ll want to add A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story to your watch list. The brand-new ...

But 70 years on from her hanging, Ruth Ellis leaves a legacy of judicial changes which have brought her family some comfort, ...

Lucy Boynton portrays Ruth Ellis, who was arrested after shooting ... A key character in the story is Desmond Cussen, Ruth's ardent admirer and occasional lover, who becomes entangled in Ruth's ...