Ruth Ellis executed: July 13th, 1955.(MONTHS PAST)(last woman hanged for murder in Britain)

A live today, Ruth Ellis would be seventy-eight. The last woman hanged for murder in Britain was a platinum blonde London bar-hostess and call-girl, from Rhyl in North Wales originally, who took up with an ex-public schoolboy called David Blakely, a motor-racing enthusiast and, like her, a heavy drinker.

He had other women and she acquired another, older lover in his thirties, a former bomber pilot named Desmond Cussen, who wanted to marry her. The triangular situation provoked fierce jealousy on all sides and drunken rows between Ruth Ellis and Blakely in which he beat her up. She ...

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