Ruth Ellis was the last woman sentenced to hang in Britain after being convicted of murdering her lover David Blakely in 1955. Over 70 years later, she has been pardoned by the King.

She was a working-class woman who broke the rules of 1950s society – and paid for it with her life. But as Ruth Ellis is pardoned, 71 years after her conviction, Louisa Treger,…

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.