My gran Ruth Ellis was last woman in UK to be hanged after she shot her lover dead – why she deserves a Royal Pardon

FOR more than 70 years, the hanging of Ruth Ellis has been a stain on our criminal justice system. The 28-year-old nightclub hostess became the last woman in Britain to be executed when she went to the gallows in 1955 for fatally shooting her lover David Blakely. There has never been any dispute that Ellis...