The story of Ruth Ellis reads much like a page-turning crime novel- one that ends in tragedy.
In 1955, at the age of 28, Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in the UK after she shot her lover dead outside a pub in Hampstead two months earlier.
On the surface, the platinum-blond model may have lead a life of glamour but a dark reality of domestic abuse, prostitution and back-street abortions existed beneath the surface.
