Ruth Ellis’s story has only ever been half told - this is what I discovered about the last woman to be hanged in Britain
- Posted on July 12, 2026
- By The Independent
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Ruth Ellis’s story has only ever been half told - this is what I discovered about the last woman to be hanged in Britain
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, whose latest novel is based on her story, explains why it’s only now that we are finding out the truth of what her life was like and what her death really meant
