DESMOND Cussen is the former partner of Ruth Ellis – the nightclub manager who became the last woman to be hanged.  Ruth’s ...

Desmond Cussen was a key figure in the story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, who is depicted in the ...

Ruth Ellis shot her lover David Blakely in 1955 and her devoted admirer Desmond Cussen was drawn into her toxic love triangle - but what happened to him after her death?

One central figure in the story is Desmond Cussen, who was Ruth's devoted admirer and sometime lover who becomes caught up in Ruth's toxic love triangle alongside Blakely. Desmond had an affair ...

A new ITV drama is set to reignite interest in the famous execution that shook post-war England and advanced the abolition of ...

A new ITV show focuses on the notorious case that helped bring about the abolition of capital punishment for murder ...

Lucy Boynton leads the cast of ITV's hard-hitting factual drama A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, which explores the tragic ...

Ahead of the four-part series, ITV said Ruth’s story was a ‘deeply intimate one which touched the world at the time and long ...

Now, ITV drama A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story is bringing the high-profile murder case back into public discourse, ...