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

DESMOND Cussen is the former partner of Ruth Ellis - the nightclub manager who became the last woman to be hanged. Ruth’s tragic story is dramatised in the ITV series A Cruel Love: The Ruth ...

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

JOHN Bickford was the lawyer who defended nightclub manager Ruth Ellis ... that Cussen had actually given her the gun with which she killed Blakely. John was reportedly aware of Desmond ...

The murder conviction of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged ... say Ellis was further provoked by another of her lovers, Desmond Cussen, who was jealous of Blakely, a racing driver.

The new ITV drama A Cruel Story: The Ruth Ellis Story delves into the tale of the last woman hanged in Britain. Set against the backdrop of 1955's swanky London club scene, Ruth Ellis becomes a ...

On 13th July 1955, 28-year-old club hostess Ruth Ellis was hanged for the murder of her abusive lover, amateur racer David Blakely. Ellis was arrested immediately after she shot Blakely in the ...

Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in the UK in 1955, and a new ITV drama series about her real life is currently on our screens, beginning last week on Wednesday (March 5). This Wednesday ...

While Ruth Ellis is remembered as the last woman to be hanged in Britain, her son Andy has been forgotten. Before he killed himself at the age of 37, he had long conversations with his mother's ...