My grandmother was Ruth Ellis, the last woman sentenced to hang in Britain... this is why she should never have gone to the gallows
On Easter Sunday 1955, Ruth Ellis, a 28-year-old nightclub manager, shot dead her lover David Blakely outside The Magdala pub in Hampstead, north London.
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- My grandmother was Ruth Ellis, the last woman sentenced to hang in Britain... this is why she should never have gone to the gallows
On Easter Sunday 1955, Ruth Ellis, a 28-year-old nightclub manager, shot dead her lover David Blakely outside The Magdala pub in Hampstead, north London.
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