UpdatedAFP8 Jul, 2026 06:01 PM3 mins to readRacecar driver David Blakely with Ruth Ellis, 28, who shot and killed him and was the last woman executed in Britain. Photo / Getty ImagesRuth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in Britain, will receive a conditional pardon in recognition of a “profound injustice”, Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy announced in Parliament on Wednesday, after a decades-long campaign by her family.
Ellis, a 28-year-old nightclub hostess, was hanged in July 1955 for shooting
