Last woman hanged in the UK to be granted conditional pardon

The crowd at the gates of Holloway Prison, London, as Ruth Ellis is executed for the murder of her lover, racing motorist David Blakely (Archive/PA) - (PA Archive)

The last woman hanged in the United Kingdom will be granted a conditional pardon but she will not be declared innocent, David Lammy has said.

The Deputy Prime Minister said the pardon will replace her death penalty with a sentence of life imprisonment “to recognise a profound injustice in this exceptional case”.