In 1955, at the age of 28, Ruth Ellis became the last woman to be hanged for murder in the UK. Her death, coming after she shot her lover outside a Hampstead pub two months before, sparked a wave ...

The murder conviction of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, is expected to be quashed before the end of the year. Lawyers for the nightclub hostess's family are confident that an ...

In 1955, Ruth Ellis became the last woman to be hanged in Britian, but today the court of appeal will be asked to quash her murder conviction and replace it with one of manslaughter. Women's ...

A claim that Ruth Ellis was provoked into shooting her lover dead and should never have been convicted of murder at her 1955 trial could not be upheld under the law as it stood at the time ...

It is 60 years since Ruth Ellis was hanged for the murder of her lover, David Blakely. The Thrill of Love is a powerful play which examines both the personal factors at work in the life of the ...

Styllou Pantopiou Christofi, a new true-crime novel exposes the facts and fictions of a truly monstrous murder. ALIX NORMAN asks whether death was deservedOn December 15, 1954 Styllou Pantopiou ...

THE last woman to be hanged in Britain, who lived part of her life in Warsash, is to have her murder conviction reviewed at the Court of Appeal. Ruth Ellis was 28 when she was convicted of gunning ...

These included Ruth Ellis, who was hung for killing her lover ... had been in the back of the getaway car on the night of the murder. Despite the devastation Allen's death caused his mum, Mark ...

entered the condemned cell at Holloway Prison where Ruth Ellis was waiting for him. The 29-year-old nightclub hostess, who had admitted the murder of her lover David Blakely in court and had been ...

Ruth Dunning (Ruth Ellis)Jacqueline Hill (Catherine Ellis)Graydon Gould (Eddie Howell)Nonnie Griffin (Secretary)Paddy Webster (Moira Ellis)Paul Curran (Will Palmerston)John Gardiner (Luke Dowling ...

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