Ruth Ellis
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Ruth Ellis was a Welsh-born nightclub hostess and convicted murderer who became the last woman to be executed in the United Kingdom, following the fatal shooting of her abusive lover, David Blakely.
Ruth Ellis
The Magdala pub in 2008. Two "bullet holes" in the wall at lower left were drilled by the pub's landlady in the 1990s.
The site of Ellis's grave (marked by a small post) in St Mary's Church, Amersham, in July 2022
Bedsit
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A bedsit, bedsitter, or bed-sitting room is a form of accommodation common in some parts of the United Kingdom which consists of a single room per occupant with all occupants typically sharing a bathr
Ruth Ellis
…Hempstead; she never fully recovered and did not speak coherently again. Ellis's son Andy, aged 10 at the time of her execution, took his own life in a bedsit in 1982, shortly after desecrating her grave. The trial judge, Sir Cecil Havers, had sent money annually for Andy's upkeep, and Christmas Humphreys…
Bedsit at The Workhouse, Southwell