Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in Britain — an execution that appalled the world,
Doomed to hang because she refused to betray her lover – and insisted on staying a ‘tarty’ blonde
Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in Britain — an execution that appalled the world.
On Saturday we told how she was beaten and abused by the men in her life before finally snapping and shooting dead her faithless, violent lover David Blakely.
Today, in our final gripping extract from a forensically researched new book, we reveal how vital evidence that would have saved her from the gallows was ignored . . .
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