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 tragic story is dramatised in the ITV series A Cruel Love: The ...

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 ...

CECIL Havers was a former soldier and judge who oversaw the Ruth Ellis case, which ended in her execution.  He appears in the ...

Dancing on Ice could be set to be axed following a huge drop in viewer figures, and now a former finalist has shared his ...

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 ...