On April 10, 1955, Ruth Ellis turned up at a pub in Hampstead and shot her lover, David Blakely, dead. Two months later, she was hanged for his murder – becoming the last woman to be executed in the UK.
Now, her story is finally being told for the first time. Surprisingly. Then again, her story isn’t a feel-good one, and over the course of ITV’s four-part series, that’s hammered into us with depressing regularity.
