DESMOND Cussen is the former partner of Ruth Ellis – the nightclub manager who became the last woman to be hanged.  Ruth’s ...

JOHN Bickford was the lawyer who defended nightclub manager Ruth Ellis during her murder trial.  Ruth’s story was dramatised in the ITV series Ruth Ellis: A Cruel Love which follows John’s ...

Decades later, the firm has been engaged by Ruth’s family to present new evidence and formally request a pardon from the ...

The story of Ruth Ellis’s execution in 1955 has found its own macabre niche in British folklore, and has been been the ...

The murder conviction of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged ... say Ellis was further provoked by another of her lovers, Desmond Cussen, who was jealous of Blakely, a racing driver.

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The new ITV drama A Cruel Story: The Ruth Ellis Story delves into the tale of the last woman hanged in Britain. Set against the backdrop of 1955's swanky London club scene, Ruth Ellis becomes a ...

While Ruth Ellis is remembered as the last woman to be hanged in Britain, her son Andy has been forgotten. Before he killed himself at the age of 37, he had long conversations with his mother's ...

A former Dancing on Ice contestant has spoken candidly about the ITV programme's current shortcomings amid speculation that the series faces cancellation due to plummeting ratings. Reports are ...

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In 1955 Ruth Ellis was the last woman hanged in Britain for the murder of her lover. In this investigative three-part series film-maker Gillian Pachter re-examines the case.