It's been 70 years since Stephen Beard's grandmother Ruth Ellis became the last woman to be hanged in the UK for murdering ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK, continues to inspire a morbid fascination in the public imagination. This week, ITV will premiere a new dramatisation of Ellis’s life, crime ...

Ruth Ellis was a Welsh mother of two who worked as a nightclub hostess, model, and one-time background actor. (She had an uncredited role in the 1951 film Lady Godiva Rides Again.) ...

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 ...

Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in the United Kingdom after the fatal shooting of her abusive lover. The year was 1955. Thirty years later, Mike Newell’s 1985 movie Dance With a ...