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RUTHLESS
WRITTEN BY KATHERINE MORAN
I was fourteen when I told my mother I was leaving.
“Bertha,” I said,
"I am going to be someone”.
In 1955,
Ruth Ellis made headlines and history as the last woman in Britain to be hanged.
She was 28 years old, a mother of two, the youngest club manager in Soho - and a murderer.
Her case divided society and shaped the British justice system - but Ruth took secrets to her grave.
History knew her name.
Now, 70 years on,
meet the woman Ruth really was.
"I don't know if I love him or if I'm going mad"
AS SEEN ON ITV
A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis story coming 2025
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