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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

Carry On star Charles Hawtrey preferred to sit "on his own" when he wasn't filming, his co-star revealed. The actor, who died aged 73 in 1988, was a regular in the Carry On film franchise ...

The Chase fans were left bewildered when they caught sight of a strikingly familiar face in an old episode of Only Connect. Jenny Ryan, known as The Vixen on the ITV show, had once battled it out ...