Ruth Ellis was born Ruth Neilson on October 9 1926, in the Welsh town of Rhyl. Ruth was the fifth of six children born to Bertha Goethals, a Belgian war refugee, and cellist Arthur Hornby.

A TV drama reveals the truth about Ruth Ellis' hanging as new claims about her innocence come to light. So, was it murder or ...

Ruth Ellis was the last woman executed in Great Britain; what’s surprising is that her execution happened only 70 years ago, in 1955. In fact, between the time she admitted to killing her lover ...

Ruth Ellis, a nightclub hostess and model, fatally shot her lover, race car driver David Blakely, in 1955. Ellis was executed that year by hanging at age 28.

The Ruth Ellis Files: A Very British Crime Story starts on BBC Four tonight at 9pm. Article continues below. Sections of this article were originally published in the Daily Mirror in 1955.

The Magdala pub in Hampstead was where Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK, shot her lover in 1955. It is screening a film about ...

In 1955, 28-year-old Ruth Ellis was the last woman in the UK to be hanged for murder. Told over two parallel timelines, the series reveals hidden secrets about the case and shows what happened in ...

A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, a four-part drama series starring Lucy Boynton (Bohemian Rhapsody, Murder on the Orient Express, The Politician) that tells the story of the last woman to be ...

When Krystina Edwards was a young resident at Ruth Ellis Center, safe from the dangers of Detroit’s red light district, she felt hope for the first time in a long time.But never would she have ...