Ruth Ellis was executed at the age of 28 at North London’s Holloway Prison in July 1955, having shot dead boyfriend David Blakely in nearby Hampstead.
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My grandmother Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in Britain – she doesn’t belong with serial killers and sex offenders in Madame Tussauds’ ‘Chamber of Horrors’
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