She will, forever, be known as the last woman in England to be hanged for murder. But this week, some 70 years on, there has been redemption of sorts for former nightclub hostess Ruth Ellis.
Ellis was executed at the age of 28 at north London‘s Holloway Prison in July 1955, having shot dead her lover David Blakely, 25, outside the Magdala pub in nearby Hampstead.
Amid public fury over her execution, the former glamour model appeared serene about her fate, as revealed in unseen letters that came to light when her family called for her to be posthumously given a reprieve
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