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Ruth Ellis

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3 days ago

What a strange country this is, where the King can pardon a long-dead killer, Ruth Ellis, while Lucy Letby, convicted in a dubious case, sits in jail while the rusty wheels of justice fail to turn

12 days ago

On Easter Sunday 1955, Ruth Ellis, a 28-year-old nightclub manager, shot dead her lover David Blakely outside The Magdala pub in Hampstead, north London.

14 days ago

When Ruth met David Blakely in the summer of 1953 she was 26 and he had just turned 24. Dark-haired and handsome, at just 5ft 9in he towered over Ruth, a mere 5ft 2in in stockinged heels.

15 days ago

On a warm summer's morning in 1955, deep within the walls of Holloway prison, a tiny, slim young woman was getting dressed.

17 days ago

David Lammy's big legacy announcement was a part-pardon for Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain for murder.
Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in the UK, has been granted a conditional posthumous pardon.
Ruth Ellis was hanged at London's Holloway Prison in 1955 after being convicted of murdering her lover David Blakely.

In 1955 Ellis was hanged for murder triggered by domestic abuse

For anyone involved in British politics, an invitation to be interviewed on Radio 4’s Today programme is the ultimate badge of seriousne…

16 months ago

They made an unlikely pair, the hangman and the sister of the woman he executed. But here they were on their way to view together the final resting place of Ruth Ellis.

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