The high-profile life of nightclub manager Ruth Ellis who shot her racing driver lover exposed the British obsession with ...

A claim that Ruth Ellis was provoked into shooting her lover ... line for compensation if the appeal succeeds. The 28-year-old nightclub hostess was hanged in 1955 for killing racing driver ...

In 1955, Ruth Ellis was hanged for murder at the age of ... She went on to become the manager of a nightclub in Kensington, and her relationship soon deteriorated. She lived in a flat above ...

The murder conviction of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, is expected to be quashed before the end of the year. Lawyers for the nightclub hostess's family are confident that an ...

Ellis was a nightclub hostess who hailed from Rhyl in Wales ... Jakubait shared in her memoir Ruth Ellis: My Sister’s Secret Life. During her teens Ellis met and married Canadian soldier Clare Andrea ...

a 28-year-old nightclub hostess, who was hanged in 1955 for the murder of former Shrewsbury schoolboy David Blakeley. Her life also featured in the recent ITV drama A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis ...

A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story followed the gripping real-life case of the ... Bickford's involvement in representing Ellis had a complicated background, as one of the nightclub manager's clients ...