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.

The pardon relieves some of the burden felt by Ruth Ellis’s family, writes Lizzie Seal

On a warm summer's morning in 1955, deep within the walls of Holloway prison, a tiny, slim young woman was getting dressed.