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

Ruth Ellis (Lucy Boynton) was arrested following the shooting of her lover David Blakely (Laurie Davidson) in 1955 following ...

Desmond Cussen was a key figure in the story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, who is depicted in the ...

Ruth Ellis shot her lover David Blakely in 1955 and her devoted admirer Desmond Cussen was drawn into her toxic love triangle - but what happened to him after her death?

Was the last British woman to be executed a victim of misogyny and snobbery? ‘A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story’ makes her ...

A new ITV drama is set to reignite interest in the famous execution that shook post-war England and advanced the abolition of ...

But 70 years on from her hanging, Ruth Ellis leaves a legacy of judicial changes which have brought her family some comfort, ...

Lucy Boynton leads the cast of ITV's hard-hitting factual drama A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, which explores the tragic ...

Now, ITV drama A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story is bringing the high-profile murder case back into public discourse, ...

A key character in the story is Desmond Cussen, Ruth's ardent admirer and occasional lover, who becomes entangled in Ruth's destructive love triangle with Blakely. Desmond had an affair with Ruth ...