It’s a true crime case that continues to hold interest: The 1955 hanging of Ruth Ellis, the last woman executed in Britain. Ellis, 28, was damned for shooting David Blakely, her physically abusive, ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." It’s been almost 70 years since Ruth Ellis, the nightclub hostess who shot and killed her lover David ...

“A woman like her, they were never going to let her off,” says the barrister in A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story (ITV1). Ellis was a nightclub manager, a former escort, a neglectful mother, a bottle ...

The story of Ruth Ellis is a tragic one. Aged 28, she became the last woman to be executed in Britain in 1955, for the crime of shooting her lover, David Blakely, dead in the street. Her case sparked ...

It can be hard to review films and shows based on a real person’s life. How accurate is the portrayal? What vital context are we, as the audience, missing? Somehow, it becomes even more difficult when ...

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 ...