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 ...
Ruth Ellis was the last woman executed in Great Britain; what’s surprising is that her execution happened only 70 years ago, in 1955. In fact, between the time she admitted to killing her lover, David ...
The granddaughter of the last woman to be hanged in the UK has revealed how the execution triggered a horrifying chain of ...
Apart from the dramatic passion of her crime, Ruth Ellis gained notoriety for one other fact – she was the last woman to be executed in the UK, to an outpouring of public anger. The nightclub hostess ...