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From glamour model to nightclub manager - who was pardoned killer Ruth Ellis?

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8 July

King Charles granted a conditional posthumous pardon to Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in the UK in 1955.

Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in the UK, has been granted a conditional posthumous pardon.

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8 July

King Charles granted a conditional posthumous pardon to Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in the UK in 1955.