Decades later, the firm has been engaged by Ruth’s family to present new evidence and formally request a pardon from the ...

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

JOHN Bickford was the lawyer who defended nightclub manager Ruth Ellis during her murder trial.  Ruth’s story was dramatised in the ITV series Ruth Ellis: A Cruel Love which follows John’s ...

The story of Ruth Ellis’s execution in 1955 has found its own macabre niche in British folklore, and has been been the ...

Nightclub hostess and glamour model, Ruth Ellis from Rhyl, North Wales shot her abusive partner David Blakely dead over 70 ...

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 ITV drama A Cruel Story: The Ruth Ellis Story ...

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?

Ruth Ellis was a nightclub manager who was convicted of killing ... Ellis also became romantically entangled with an RAF ...

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

RUTH Ellis was the last ever woman to be executed in Britain. Her tragic story features in A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, which dropped on Wednesday, March 5th, 2025. Why was Ruth Ellis ...

Toby Jones is on characteristically excellent form as the doomed Ruth’s barrister in ITV’s latest true crime series ...