Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, continues to inspire a morbid fascination in the public imagination.
The case was a tragic one, Ellis having endured a hard life and several miscarriages at the hands of the cruel and hypocritical men she encountered among London’s nightlife.
More famously, Miranda Richardson portrayed Ruth Ellis in Mike Newell’s moving Dance with a Stranger (1985).
It was Pierrepoint who executed Ellis, of course, and she appears in that film played by Mary Stockley.